Report No. 40, 55th Parliament - Nature Conservation (Special Wildlife Reserves) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 (LAPSED)

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The 55th Queensland Parliament has been dissolved by proclamation dated 29 October 2017. Therefore while the committee has tabled its report on the Nature Conservation (Special Wildlife Reserves) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017. The Bill was not considered in the House and has therefore lapsed.

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The committee's report on the Bill was tabled on 11 August 2017.  

View: Report No. 40, 55th Parliament, Nature Conservation (Special Wildlife Reserves) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 
View: Nature Conservation (Special Wildlife Reserves) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
View: Explanatory Notes
View: Explanatory speech

ABOUT The Bill

On 14 June 2017 Hon Dr Steven Miles MP, Minister for Environment and Heritage Protection and Minister for National Parks and the Great Barrier Reef introduced the Nature Conservation (Special Wildlife Reserves) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Agriculture and Environment Committee for detailed consideration.

According to the Explanatory Notes, Acts amended by the Bill, and the policy objectives, are as follows:

  • the Nature Conservation Act 1992
    • to establish a new class of privately owned or managed protected area (special wildlife reserve)
  • the Biodiscovery Act 2004
    • to provide that s 24 (Collection authority concerning land dedicated as new national park or declared as marine park) applies to special wildlife reserves and their declaration
  • the Forestry Act 1959, the Fossicking Act 1994 and the Mineral Resources Act 1989
    • to add a special wildlife reserve to the types of areas defined as protected area under these Acts
  • the Vegetation Management Act 1999
    • to include special wildlife reserves in the list of protected areas to which this Act does not apply for the clearing of vegetation
  • the Land Act 1994 and the Land Title Act 1994
    • to streamline the process by which conservation agreements, for new and existing protected areas, survive tenure dealing processes such as tenure conversion and lease renewal
    • to clarify (in the Land Act) that where a protected area declaration is made over a lease, the purpose of the underlying lease is consistent with nature conservation
  • the Environmental Offsets Act 2014
    • to recognise the new class of protected area (special wildlife reserve) under the Nature Conservation Act
    • to clarify administrative arrangements for approving offset proposals under part 6 of the Environmental Offsets Act in relation to offsets that have or may be granted under the Planning Act 2016
  • the Environmental Protection Act 1994
    • to ensure that risks to the Great Barrier Reef can be managed consistently regardless of whether potentially harmful activities are conducted wholly within Queensland waters or partly within Queensland waters and partly in adjacent Commonwealth waters, within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

submissions

Submissions closed on 10 July 2017

 

TIMELINE

Public hearing:         12 July 2017 transcript 
Public briefing:        12 July 2017 transcript

The broadcast for the public hearing and briefing can be found here.

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