Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES (JUSTICE, LAND AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 62

62 Right of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to particular forest products and quarry material—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land

(1) If there is no reservation to the Crown of forest products or quarry material, within the meaning of the Forestry Act 1959 , above, on or below the surface of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander land, the community government or indigenous regional council for the community government or IRC area in which the land is situated may, subject to subsection (2) , authorise the gathering or digging, and removal, of forest products or quarry material for use in the community government or IRC area.

(2) A community government or indigenous regional council must not give an authority unless—

(a) the authority is given under an agreement between the community government or indigenous regional council and the grantees of the land; or

(b) failing agreement, the community government or indigenous regional council pays the grantees of the land such compensation as is determined by the Land Court.