Queensland Consolidated Regulations

SUMMARY OFFENCES REGULATION 2016 - REG 10

10 Consultation and notification

(1) Before an application is made under section 8 (1) , the responsible government entity must—

(a) consult about the entity’s proposal for an area of public land to be prescribed as motorbike control land with—

(i) the district officer of the police district for the area; and

(ii) the local government for the area; and

(iii) a person, or a representative of a person, who is living in or adjacent to, or carrying on business in or adjacent to, the area; and

(b) publish a notice of the entity’s intention to make the application.

(2) The notice mentioned in subsection (1) (b) must comply with section 11 and be published on the entity’s website and in a newspaper circulating generally in the area or, if there is no newspaper circulating generally in the area, a newspaper circulating generally in the State.

(3) Also, the entity must take other reasonably necessary steps to ensure persons who may reasonably be expected to be affected by the proposal are notified of the proposal in a way that gives them—

(a) the information that must be included under section 11 in the notice; and

(b) an opportunity to make a written submission about the proposal within the period mentioned in section 11 (f) .

Examples of steps that may be taken under subsection (3)—

• notifying people of the proposal by television advertisement

• arranging for a letter box drop of leaflets about the proposal

• erecting a notice at or near the area about the proposal