Queensland Consolidated Acts

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 82

82 Validation of particular clearing

(1) This section applies to the clearing of vegetation carried out—

(a) after 20 May 2004 but before the commencement of this section; and

(b) to the extent necessary for an activity approved under another Act; and

(c) in a watercourse or lake; and

(d) on land other than freehold land.

(2) The clearing is taken to have been lawfully carried out under this Act and the repealed Integrated Planning Act 1997 even if there was, for the clearing, no development permit given for operational work under the repealed Integrated Planning Act 1997, schedule 8, part 1, table 4, items 1A to 1G.

(3) In this section—

"activity" does not include an activity relating to a development approval under the repealed Integrated Planning Act 1997 given for a material change of use of premises or the reconfiguration of a lot.