Queensland Numbered Acts

FOREST WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT ACT 2020

- As at 20 August 2020
- Act 28 of 2020

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Purpose of Act
   4.      Act binds all persons
   5.      Definitions

   PART 2 - DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS

   6.      Meaning of development agreement
   7.      Matters about development agreements that must be noted on plantation licences

   PART 3 - ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   8.      Authority given by access licences
   9.      Conditions precedent for giving access licences

           Division 2 - Applications for access licences

   10.     Making licence applications
   11.     Requests to applicants about licence applications
   12.     Deciding licence applications
   13.     Form of access licences
   14.     Conditions of access licences
   15.     Term of access licences
   16.     Effect on access licences if licence land stops being in particular areas
   17.     Particular conditions continue after access licences end

           Division 3 - Amending, surrendering and cancelling access licences

   18.     Making amendment applications
   19.     Deciding amendment applications
   20.     Surrender of access licences
   21.     Cancellation of access licences
   22.     Minister may give compliance notices

           Division 4 - Transferring and mortgaging access licences

   23.     Transfers of access licences
   24.     Mortgages of access licences

           Division 5 - Registration of particular matters

   25.     Registration of access licences and amendments
   26.     Requirements if access licences stop having effect
   27.     Registration of transfers and mortgages

   PART 4 - LEASING LAND IN PROJECT AREA

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   28.     Conditions precedent for giving and renewing project leases

           Division 2 - Applications for project leases

   29.     Making lease applications
   30.     Requests to applicants about lease applications
   31.     Deciding lease applications
   32.     Notices of offer
   33.     When Land Act Minister must give project leases

           Division 3 - Provisions about project leases

   34.     Application of Land Act 1994 to project leases
   35.     Provisions of Land Act 1994 that do not apply in relation to project leases
   36.     Modified application of particular provisions of Land Act 1994
   37.     Conditions of project leases
   38.     Particular conditions taken to be imposed conditions for Land Act 1994
   39.     When project leases stop having effect
   40.     Effect of project leases ending

           Division 4 - Surrendering and transferring project leases

   41.     Surrender of project leases
   42.     Transfers of project leases

           Division 5 - Renewal of project leases

   43.     Making renewal applications
   44.     Deciding renewal applications
   45.     Notices of offer
   46.     When Land Act Minister must give new project leases
   47.     Application of Land Act 1994, s 434B to renewal applications

           Division 6 - Registration of particular matters

   48.     Requirements if project leases stop having effect
   49.     Registration of transfers

   PART 5 - INTERNAL REVIEW OF DECISIONS

   50.     Who may apply for internal review
   51.     Applications for internal review
   52.     Internal review decisions

   PART 6 - REMEDIATION OF LAND IN PROJECT AREA

   53.     Relevant entity for project instruments
   54.     Minister may require particular entities to remediate land in project area

   PART 7 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

   55.     Inconsistency with Land Act 1994
   56.     Relationship with Forestry Act 1959
   57.     No compensation payable by State
   58.     Delegation
   59.     Regulation-making power

   PART 8 - AMENDMENT OF ACTS

           Division 1 - Amendment of this Act

   60.     Act amended
   61.     Amendment of long title

           Division 2 - Amendment of Forestry Act 1959

   62.     Act amended
   63.     Amendment of s 26 (Restriction on alienation etc.)
   64.     Amendment of s 32C (Quarrying in State plantation forest)
   65.     Amendment of s 61RI (Events that are not compensation events)
   66.     Amendment of s 73 (Unlawfully using State forests etc.)
   67.     Amendment of s 73B (Commercial activities)
   68.     Amendment of s 73D (Restricted items)
   69.     Amendment of s 73F (Unauthorised structures or works)
   70.     Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary)

           Division 3 - Amendment of Land Act 1994

   71.     Act amended
   72.     Amendment of s 287 (Registered documents must comply with particular requirements)
   73.     Amendment of s 327F (Notice of surrender)

           Division 4 - Amendment of Planning Act 2016

   74.     Act amended
   74A.    Amendment of s 231 (Non-appealable decisions and matters)
   75.     Insertion of new ch 7, pt 4C
   76.     Insertion of new ch 8, pt 8
   77.     Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary)
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