Queensland Consolidated Regulations

NATURE CONSERVATION (PROTECTED AREAS MANAGEMENT) REGULATION 2024 - REG 34

34 Declaration of prescribed commercial activity

(1) The chief executive may, by notice published on the department’s website, declare a commercial activity to be a prescribed commercial activity for a protected area or part of a protected area, other than a special wildlife reserve or nature refuge.

(2) The notice must state the following—

(a) that the stated commercial activity is a prescribed commercial activity for the stated protected area or part;

(b) that the chief executive may authorise a prescribed commercial activity in the area or part only under a commercial activity agreement;

(c) how a person may obtain further information about entering into a commercial activity agreement for conducting the prescribed commercial activity in the area or part.

(3) In deciding whether to make the declaration, the chief executive must have regard to the following—

(a) the object of the Act , including, in particular the conservation of the cultural and natural resources of the protected area or part;

(b) the management principles for the area;

(c) the interim or declared management intent, or management plan, for the area;

(d) the orderly and proper management of the area or part;

(e) the existing use, character and amenity, and the future or desirable use, character and amenity, of the area or part and adjacent areas, including the likely cumulative effect of the proposed use and other uses on the area;

(f) the likely contributions that potential parties to commercial activity agreements applying to the area or part will make to the management of the area or part, including, for example, contributions to the conservation and presentation of the values of the area or part.

(4) A commercial activity permit in effect for an activity that subsequently becomes a prescribed commercial activity remains in effect to authorise the activity until the permit ends or is amended by the chief executive on the ground mentioned in section 135 (a) .