Queensland Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF LAND REGISTER ACT 1988 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Dictionary

"acquire" includes obtain, gain, receive or acquire—

(a) by purchase, exchange or lease; and

(b) by will, devolution or operation of law; and

(c) by grant or gift; and

(d) by enforcement of a security.

(a) any person occupying or acting in the position of director of the corporation, by whatever name called and whether or not validly appointed to occupy or duly authorised to act in the position; and

(b) any person under whose directions or instructions the directors of the corporation are accustomed to act.

(a) in land and any improvements on the land; and

(b) in a licence or permit granted under the Land Act 1994 ; and

(c) in a miners homestead within the meaning of the Land Act 1994 ;

(d) a security interest in land; or

(e) an estate or interest in an easement over land; or

(f) the estate or interest of a lessee of freehold land or a sublessee of leasehold land where the term of the lease or the sublease, as the case may be, including all options given under the lease or sublease, as the case may be, does not exceed 25 years; or

(g) an estate or interest in the minerals (within the meaning of the Mineral Resources Act 1989 ) or in petroleum (within the meaning of the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 ) contained in or beneath any land; or

(h) any authority, however called, relating to land (other than a market garden, business or residence area) granted under the Mineral Resources Act 1989 , the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 , the Geothermal Energy Act 2010 , the Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2009 , the Petroleum Act 1923 , the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 or the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 ; or

(i) any estate or interest granted under any agreement, authorised to be made for and on behalf of the State and specifically given the force of law by an Act of Parliament as though the agreement were an enactment of that Act, for the purpose of the development of mineral deposits or purposes incidental and consequent on the development of mineral deposits; or

(j) a carbon abatement interest under the Land Act 1994 or Land Title Act 1994 ; or

(k) a covenant under the Land Act 1994 or Land Title Act 1994 ; or

(l) a plantation licence under the Forestry Act 1959 ; or

(m) a profit a prendre under the Land Act 1994 or Land Title Act 1994 .