Queensland Consolidated Acts

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 19E

19E Request for declaration

(1) The owner of land (the
"proponent" ) may, by written notice given to the chief executive, ask the chief executive to declare that a stated area of the land is—

(a) an area of high nature conservation value; or

(b) an area vulnerable to land degradation.

(2) The notice must be accompanied by a management plan for the stated area.

(3) The management plan must—

(a) be signed by the proponent; and

(b) include enough information to allow the chief executive to map the boundary of the stated area; and

(c) state the proponent’s management intent, and management outcomes proposed by the proponent, for the conservation of the high nature conservation value of the area or the prevention of land degradation in the area; and

(d) state the activities the proponent intends to carry out, or refrain from carrying out, to achieve the management outcomes mentioned in paragraph (c) ; and

(e) state the restrictions, if any, to be imposed on the use of, or access to, the area by other persons to achieve the management outcomes mentioned in paragraph (c) .

(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the matters the management plan may contain.