Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 80B

80B Ferry services

(1) A local government has the exclusive right to provide a ferry service across a watercourse if the land that forms both banks of the watercourse is in its local government area.

(2) A
"watercourse" is a river, creek or channel where water flows naturally.

(3) A local government may—

(a) lease the right to provide a ferry service across a watercourse that it has the exclusive right to provide a ferry service across; and

(b) make local laws for managing and regulating the use of ferries operated or leased by it.

(4) A regulation may—

(a) declare another watercourse that a local government has the exclusive right to provide a ferry service across; and

(b) provide for any other matter connected with the provision of ferry services (including declaring the approaches to a ferry as being under the control of a local government, for example).