Queensland Numbered Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND OTHER ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 2011 No. 3 - SECT 17

After section 76I—

insert—

'(1) Under the Planning Act, sections 346 and 346A, the conditions imposed on a fisheries development approval may include environmental offset conditions.

'(2) An environmental offset condition may relate to works or activities undertaken to counterbalance the impacts of the development on fisheries resources or fish habitat including, for example—

(a) works or activities to enhance or rehabilitate a fish habitat; and

(b) the exchange of another fish habitat for a fish habitat affected by the development; and

(c) a contribution to fish habitat research.

'(3) With the agreement of the applicant for the approval, an environmental offset condition may require a monetary payment to the Fisheries Research Fund under section 117.'.