Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 113

113 What this part is about

(1) The purpose of this part is to allow the Minister or the department’s chief executive, on behalf of the State—

(a) to gather information, including under a direction, to monitor and evaluate whether—

(i) a local government or councillor is performing their responsibilities properly; or

(ii) a local government or councillor is complying with laws applying to the local government or councillor, including the Local Government Acts; or

(iii) it is otherwise in the public interest for the Minister or the department’s chief executive to take remedial action under this part; and

(b) to take remedial action.

(2)
"Remedial action" is action to improve a local government’s or councillor’s performance or compliance, or that is in the public interest, taken under division 2A or 3 .