Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) This section is about the code of competitive conduct.
(2) The code of competitive conduct is the code of competitive conduct prescribed under a regulation.
(3) A local government must apply the code of competitive conduct to the conduct of the following business activities of the local government--
(a) a building certifying activity;
(b) a roads activity, other than a roads activity for which business is conducted only through a sole supplier arrangement.
(4) A building certifying activity is a business activity that--
(a) involves performing building certifying functions (within the meaning of the Building Act, section 8); and
(b) is prescribed under a regulation.
(5) A roads activity is a business activity (other than a business activity prescribed under a regulation) that involves--
(a) constructing or maintaining a State-controlled road, that the State put out to competitive tender; or
(b) submitting a competitive tender in relation to--
(i) constructing or maintaining a road in the local government area, that the local government put out to competitive tender; or
(ii) constructing or maintaining a road in another local government area, that the other local government put out to competitive tender.
(6) The local government must start to apply the code of competitive conduct--
(a) for a building certifying activity--from the start of the financial year after the financial year in which the building certifying activity is first conducted; or
(b) for a roads activity--from when the roads activity is first conducted.
(7) A local government must decide each financial year, by resolution, whether or not to apply the code of competitive conduct to any other business activities.