Queensland Consolidated Acts

CONSTITUTION OF QUEENSLAND 2001 - SECT 71

71 Requirements for a local government

(1) A local government is an elected body that is charged with the good rule and local government of a part of Queensland allocated to the body.

(2) Another Act, whenever made, may provide for the way in which a local government is constituted and the nature and extent of its functions and powers.

(3) Despite subsection (1) , another Act, whenever made, may provide for the appointment of 1 or more bodies or persons to perform all or any of a local government’s functions and to exercise all or any of a local government’s powers and to be taken to be a local government—

(a) during a suspension of a local government’s councillors under section 74 ; or

(b) if a local government is dissolved or unable to be properly elected—until a local government has been properly elected.