Queensland Consolidated Acts

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 19N

19N Draft matters for assessing development application for clearing of vegetation for special indigenous purpose

(1) The Minister may prepare a document stating draft assessment matters for development that—

(a) involves, or relates to, the clearing of vegetation; and

(b) the Minister is satisfied is for a special indigenous purpose under the CYPH Act .

(2) In preparing the document, the Minister—

(a) must consult with—

(i) the relevant landholders; and

(ii) the Cape York Peninsula Regional Advisory Committee; and

(b) may, for example, consider any matter stated in the CYPH Act , section 18 or 19 the Minister considers is relevant to the clearing of vegetation for development.

(3) In preparing assessment matters under the Planning Act , the document may be considered, but otherwise does not affect the preparation or making of assessment matters under that Act.

(4) In this section—

"assessment matters" means—

(a) assessment benchmarks for assessing development under the Planning Act ; and

(b) the matters a referral agency must or may assess a development application against, or having regard to.

"Cape York Peninsula Region" means the Cape York Peninsula Region under the CYPH Act .

"Cape York Peninsula Regional Advisory Committee" means the Cape York Peninsula Regional Advisory Committee established under the CYPH Act .

"DOGIT land" means DOGIT land under the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 .

"relevant landholders" means—

(a) the land trusts for Aboriginal land, under the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 , that is in the Cape York Peninsula Region; and

(b) the Aurukun Shire Council; and

(c) the trustees, under the Land Act 1994 , of DOGIT land in the Cape York Peninsula Region.