Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 197

197 National parks (recovery) taken to be national parks and special management areas (controlled action)

(1) On the commencement, the area of each national park (recovery)—

(a) continues as a national park under this Act as if it had been dedicated under this Act as a national park; and

(b) is taken to be declared under this Act as a special management area (controlled action) to allow activities of the type, or for the purpose, stated in section 17(1A)(a)(i).

(2) As soon as practicable after the commencement, the chief executive must—

(a) erect or display a notice for the special management area complying with the requirements stated in section 42A(2); and

(b) publish a copy of the notice on the department’s website and in the gazette.

(3) In this section—

"national park (recovery)" means an area that, immediately before the commencement, was a national park (recovery) under this Act.