Queensland Consolidated Acts

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 96

96 Existing compliance notices

(1) If an existing compliance notice requires the person given the notice to stop committing the offence, the compliance notice is, from 8 October 2009, taken to be a stop work notice.

(2) If an existing compliance notice requires the person given the notice to stop committing the offence and to rectify the matter the subject of the compliance notice, the person is, from 8 October 2009, taken to have been given a stop work notice and a restoration notice.

(3) If an existing compliance notice requires the person to rectify the matter the subject of the compliance notice, the compliance notice is, from 8 October 2009, taken to be a restoration notice.

(4) This section applies despite section 54A (3) or (4) or 54B (3) or (4) .

(5) In this section—

"existing compliance notice" means—

(a) a compliance notice for a vegetation clearing offence in force immediately before 8 October 2009; or

(b) a Land Act notice.