Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BUILDING REGULATION 2006 - REG 53B

53B Notice requirement for particular development approvals for farm buildings

(1) This section applies to the decision-maker for a building development application if—

(a) the application is for building work for a farm building; and

(b) the decision-maker approves the application in whole or in part; and

(c) the building work that is approved complies with the QDC, part 3.7 , acceptable solution A3(2) or (3).

(2) The decision-maker must, within 5 business days after approving the building development application, give QFES a notice in the approved form about the approved building work.

Editor’s note—

The approved form can be accessed, free of charge, on the department’s website.

(3) In this section—

"decision-maker" means—

(a) if the building development application is a development application—the assessment manager for the application; or

(b) if the building development application is a change application—the responsible entity for the application.

"farm animal" means an animal whose meat or produce is intended for human consumption.

Examples of produce—

eggs, milk, wool

"farm building" means—

(a) a class 7 building situated on land used primarily for farming, if the building is used primarily for—

(i) farming; or

(ii) housing 3 or more farm vehicles; or

(b) a class 8 building situated on land used primarily for farming, if the building is also used primarily for farming.

"farming" means the use of land for 1 or more of the following—

(a) cultivating or propagating plants or fungi or constituent parts of plants or fungi;

Examples of a constituent part of a plant—

a seed, a bulb

Example of a constituent part of a fungus—

a fungal spore

(b) harvesting or packing a thing mentioned in paragraph (a) , other than cutting timber or preparing timber for sale;

(c) keeping farm animals for 1 or more of the following purposes—

(i) gathering or packing produce of the animals in a way that does not result in the death of the animals;

Examples—

gathering eggs laid by chickens, gathering wool shorn from sheep, milking cows or goats

(ii) selling the animals or their produce;

(iii) breeding the animals.

"farm vehicle" means a vehicle used in relation to farming.

Examples—

tractor, harvester, quad bike, utility truck