Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) The chief executive may, in the moratorium period, take all or any of the steps mentioned in subsection (2) if satisfied it is necessary or desirable for achieving the purpose of this Act or the Vegetation Management Act to take the steps.
(2) For subsection (1), steps are--
(a) despite part 3, division 3, stop deciding applications for exemptions; or
(b) for a stated period, stop deciding relevant vegetation clearing applications; or
(c) for a stated period, stop giving the assessment manager its referral agency's responses to relevant development applications.
(3) For subsection (2)(b) and (c), the period the chief executive has to decide relevant vegetation clearing applications or assess relevant development applications does not end until the end of the stated period.
(4) In this section--
relevant development applications means development applications made before or in the moratorium period for which--
(a) the chief executive is a concurrence agency; and
(b) the jurisdiction under the Planning Act, section 3.1.8 for the concurrence agency is the purpose of the Vegetation Management Act.
relevant vegetation clearing applications means vegetation clearing applications, made before or in the moratorium period, for which the chief executive is the assessment manager.