Queensland Consolidated Acts

ACQUISITION OF LAND ACT 1967 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Purposes for taking land

Part 1 - Purposes relating to transportation

• aviation and related purposes

• beacons

• bridges

• docks

• dockyards

• ferries

• harbours and harbour works

• jetties

• landing places

• lighthouses

• locks

• parking of vehicles

• railways and related purposes

• roads

• tramways

• weighbridges

• wharves

Part 2 - Purposes relating to the environment

• management, protection or control of the environmental values of areas or places

• protected areas within the meaning of the Nature Conservation Act 1992 , part 4 , division 2

• soil conservation

• conservation of koalas on land in a ‘Rural Living Area’ or ‘Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area’ under the regional plan for the SEQ region under the Planning Act 2016 , if the land is in the local government area of the Brisbane City Council, Gold Coast City Council, Ipswich City Council, Logan City Council, Moreton Bay City Council, Noosa Shire Council, Redland City Council or Sunshine Coast Regional Council

• management, protection or control of the seashore, estuaries and land adjoining the seashore and estuaries, including for providing access to beaches, and works for the management, protection or control of the seashore, estuaries and land adjoining the seashore and estuaries

Part 3 - Purposes relating to educational and cultural facilities

• colleges

• kindergartens

• libraries

• museums

• State educational institutions or other schools

• TAFE Queensland established under the TAFE Queensland Act 2013

• universities or other higher education institutions

• other educational establishments

Part 4 - Purposes relating to health services

• ambulance services

• health facilities, including health centres, community health centres and health clinics

• hospitals and services related to the operation of hospitals

• community residential facilities, including boarding houses, refuges, aged care facilities and facilities for people with a disability, social disadvantage or mental illness

Part 5 - Purposes relating to natural resources

• gravel and sand pits

• quarries

Part 6 - Purposes relating to recreation

• beaches

• botanical or other gardens

• gymnasiums

• markets

• parks

• public meetings

• public music

• racecourses

• recreation grounds

• showgrounds

• swimming pools

Part 7 - Purposes relating to water

• aqueducts

• bore drains

• bores

• canals

• dams, weirs or other works for the conservation or reticulation of water

• drainage

• flood gates or flood warnings

• flood prevention or flood mitigation

• fords

• pumps

• quays

• reservoirs

• wells

Part 8 - Purposes relating to primary production

• experimental farms

• forestry (including afforestation, silviculture, protection of forests and forest products, harvesting, transporting, milling, preparing, treating or marketing forest products, access to or for the purposes of forests, acquisition of forests and forest products and related purposes)

Part 9 - Purposes relating to law enforcement

• corrective service facilities under the Corrective Services Act 2006

• detention centres and other places for the purposes of the Youth Justice Act 1992

• police

• watch houses

Part 10 - Purposes relating to urban planning

• civic centres or squares

• setting apart, subdividing, resubdividing, reclaiming, alienating, taking up, occupying or leasing any unallocated State land, or dealing with unallocated State land in any way in which it may be dealt with under the Land Act 1994 (whether in carrying out the purposes for which the land is taken, the land is dealt with separately or in conjunction with any adjacent or other unallocated State land)

Part 11 - Purposes relating to sanitation

• septic tanks

• sewage farms and disposal works and depots

• sewerage

• sewers

• waste management facilities, including refuse tips and refuse transfer stations

Part 12 - Purposes relating to works, construction and facilities

• buildings

• caravan parks

• cemeteries or crematories

• departmental and official purposes

• electrical works

• fire stations

• pounds

• works for the conservation of hydraulic or other power

• works for any public works, or other work or purpose of a similar nature

• works for the construction or erection of any public or other works that the constructing authority is authorised under any Act or resolution of Parliament to construct or erect, or for the purposes of any Act

Part 13 - Purposes relating to non-profit or not-for-profit organisations

• non-profit or not-for-profit organisations, including a charity, charitable institution, public benevolent institution, charitable fund and income tax exempt fund

Part 14 - Other purposes

• any purpose declared under a regulation to be a purpose for which land may be taken under this Act