Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL OFFSETS ACT 2014 - SECT 12

12 What is an environmental offsets policy

(1) An
"environmental offsets policy" is a document prescribed under a regulation to be an environmental offsets policy.

(2) As soon as possible after the prescription as an environmental offsets policy of a document made by the chief executive, the chief executive must make the policy available for inspection in the way the chief executive considers appropriate.

(3) As soon as possible after the prescription as an environmental offsets policy of a document made by a local government, the local government must ensure the policy is available for inspection in the way the local government considers appropriate.

(4) For subsections (2) and (3) , an example of a way the chief executive or a local government may consider appropriate is making the document available in an electronic form on a website.

(5) If the document prescribed to be an environmental offsets policy is amended or repealed, the amendment or repeal does not take effect for this Act until—

(a) for an amendment—the document as amended is prescribed to be an environmental offsets policy; or

(b) for a repeal—the document is prescribed to have been repealed.