Legislation Giving the Land Court Jurisdiction

Please refer to the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel for details of each of the following pieces of legislation.

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act – ss.112 &113, s.106, s.76, s.110
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities Act 1984 - s.62
Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander (Land Holding) Act 1985 - s.33B(4), (6),
Aboriginal Land Act 1991 - s.38(1), s.43(3), s.75(1), s.81(5), 16 E, 40Q & 77Q
Acquisition of Land Act 1967
Alcan Queensland Pty Agreement Act 1975
Amoco Amendment 1961, Schedule B
Austral Pacific Amendment 1967, Schedules, 2nd and 3rd
Biological Control Act 1987 - s.55(3)
Breakwater Island Casino Agreement Act 1984 - Schedule 1, s.19
Central Queensland Coal Associates Agreement Act 1968 - Sched 1, 10
Century Zinc Project Act 1997 - s.7
City of Brisbane Act 1924 - s.84, s.89, s.90, s.91
Environmental Protection Act 1994- Schedule 2, ss.523, 219, 221, 522
Forestry Act 1959 - s.61F, s.61H, s.61I
Foreign Ownership of Land Register Act 1988 – ss.29, 30
Fossicking Act 1994 – ss. 22, 99, 100, 103, 16, 20, 102
Geothermal Exploration Act 2004 – ss. 89, 97 H-J, 109-114
Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2009 – ss.307, 324, 293-294, 400, 395-396
Housing (Freehold of Land) Act 1957 – s.10c(2), 5
Land Act 1994
Land and Resources Tribunal Act 1999
Land Court Act 2000
Local Government (Aboriginal Lands) Act 1978 – s.33H
Local Government Act 1993 - s.912(4), s.980, s.987 – 990
Land Tax Act 1915 – subject to s.70 of the Revenue and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2009
Mineral Resources Act 1989
Nature Conservation Act 1992 – ss.126, 108, 67
Offshore Minerals Act 1998 – ss. 351, 354
Petroleum Act 1923 – ss. 79R, 79D, F, S, 75IZD-G, 104-109, 95
Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004
Queensland Nickel Agreement Acts - part VI, s.8
Racing Venues Development Act 1982 - s.29(4), (6)
Soil Conservation Act 1986 - s.10(9), s.13(6)-(7), s.15(3), s.20, s.22, s.23, s.30
State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 – ss. 127, 139, 152
Sugar Industry Act 1999 – ss. 63, 65, 287, 75, 68, 72, 73, 235
Thiess Peabody Coal Pty Ltd Agreement Act 1962
Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Act 2003 – ss. 76, 106, 112, 113, 111
Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991 – ss. 40, 78, 37X, 35, 72, s.13E, 37Q
Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 – ss. 240, 260A, 300, 335, 383, 412
Valuation of Land Act 1944 - s.45, ss.55-67
Water Act 2000 – ss. 972, 877, 865
Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008 – s.562
Wet Tropics World Heritage Protection and Management Act 1993 - s.54, s.57
Yeppoon Hospital Amendment 2006 s.4