Queensland Consolidated Acts

ACQUISITION OF LAND ACT 1967 - SECT 54

54 Validation of particular notices of intention to resume and resumption agreements

(1) This section applies if, before the commencement—

(a) a constructing authority—

(i) served on a person a notice of intention to resume for land that stated a purpose for which the land was to be taken included the conservation of koalas on land in a ‘Regional Landscape and Rural Protection Area’; or

(ii) entered into a resumption agreement for land that stated a purpose for which the land was to be taken included the conservation of koalas on land in a ‘Regional Landscape and Rural Protection Area’; and

(b) a gazette resumption notice for the land was not published.

(2) After the commencement, the constructing authority may continue to take the land as if the notice of intention to resume or resumption agreement stated, and had always stated, a purpose for which the land was to be taken included the conservation of koalas on land in a ‘Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area’.

(3) Anything done, or omitted to be done, in relation to the notice of intention to resume or resumption agreement is, and is taken to have always been, as valid as it would have been if the notice of intention to resume or resumption agreement had stated a purpose for which the land was to be taken included the conservation of koalas on land in a ‘Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area’.