Queensland Consolidated Acts

GOLD COAST WATERWAYS AUTHORITY ACT 2012

- As at 1 February 2024
- Act 38 of 2012

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Purposes of Act and their achievement
   4.      Relationship with other Acts
   5.      Act binds all persons

   PART 2 - INTERPRETATION

   6.      Definitions
   7.      Meaning of Gold Coast waters and Gold Coast waterways

   PART 3 - GOLD COAST WATERWAYS AUTHORITY

           Division 1 - Establishment and status

   8.      Establishment
   9.      Legal status

           Division 2 - Functions and powers

   10.     Main function and its achievement
   11.     General powers
   12.     Powers relating to navigational access
   13.     Powers subject to Ministerial direction
   14.     Delegations by Gold Coast Waterways Authority

   PART 4 - WATERWAYS MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

           Division 1 - Development and approval of strategy

   15.     Meaning of waterways management strategy
   16.     Development of waterways management strategy
   17.     Content of waterways management strategy
   18.     Tabling of waterways management strategy

           Division 2 - Waterways management program

   19.     Development of waterways management program
   20.     Consistency with waterways management strategy

   PART 4A - SPIT WORKS PROGRAMS

   20A.    Development of Spit works programs
   20B.    Direction to amend approved Spit works program

   PART 5 - POWERS RELATING TO WATERWAYS MANAGEMENT

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   21.     General limitation on Gold Coast Waterways Authority’s powers under part

           Division 2 - Waterways notices

   22.     Gold Coast Waterways Authority may control activities or conduct by notice
   23.     Waterways notices generally
   24.     Display or publication of waterways notices
   25.     Person must comply with waterways notice
   26.     Interfering with waterways notices

           Division 3 - Dealing with contravening and abandoned property
           Note—

   27.     Definitions for div 3
   28.     Moving contravening property
   29.     Reasonable steps must be taken to find owner of abandoned property
   30.     A person may claim property
   31.     Sale of abandoned property
   32.     Abandoned property of insufficient value
   32A.    Recovery of expenses incurred in dealing with property

           Division 4 - Review of decisions

   33.     Definitions for div 4
   34.     Internal review
   35.     External review

   PART 6 - MINISTERIAL DIRECTIONS, REPORTING AND INFORMATION

   36.     Ministerial directions or guidelines to Gold Coast Waterways Authority
   37.     Ministerial access to information
   38.     Quarterly performance reports
   39.     Annual report

   PART 7 - FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

   40.     Application of financial Acts
   41.     Amounts received must be paid into the consolidated fund
   42.     Marina owner levy

   PART 8 - GOLD COAST WATERWAYS AUTHORITY BOARD

           Division 1 - Establishment and membership

   43.     Gold Coast Waterways Authority Board controls the Authority
   44.     Membership
   45.     Appointed members
   46.     Duration of appointment
   47.     Terms and conditions of appointment
   48.     Vacation of office of appointed member
   49.     Suspension from office of appointed members
   50.     Removal from office of appointed members
   51.     Delegation by particular member

           Division 2 - Meetings and other business

   52.     Conduct of business
   53.     Times and places of meetings
   54.     Quorum
   55.     Presiding at meetings
   56.     Conduct of meetings
   57.     Decisions outside meetings
   58.     Minutes and record of decisions

           Division 3 - Miscellaneous provisions

   59.     Protection of members from civil liability

   PART 9 - STAFF

           Division 1 - Chief executive officer

   60.     Chief executive officer
   61.     Acting chief executive officer
   62.     Functions and powers of the chief executive officer
   63.     Delegations by chief executive officer

           Division 2 - Employees

   64.     Employees
   65.     Chief executive officer may employ employees
   66.     Preservation of rights of particular public service officers
   67.     Tenure as public service officer on ending of particular employment contracts

   PART 10 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

   68.     Request for information from prospective appointees
   69.     Disclosure of disqualification by appointees
   70.     Disclosure of conflicts of interest by appointees
   71.     Review of Gold Coast Waterways Authority’s operations
   72.     Regulation-making power

   PART 11 - REPEALS

   73.     Repeals

   PART 12 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

   74.     Definition for pt 12
   75.     Waterways management strategy
   76.     Waterways management program
   77.     Marina owner levy
   78.     Transfer of particular State assets and liabilities to Gold Coast Waterways Authority
   79.     Registration of transferred assets
   80.     Novation of particular State contracts to Gold Coast Waterways Authority
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2