APN Codex · Planning Rules
Australia — Queensland
The Rules That Govern Property in Queensland
Council Areas
78
Local Plans Listed
14
State-wide
51
Particular Areas
2
As At
17 Sep 2026
1Overview
This page lists the 51 Queensland Acts, regulations and rules that apply throughout Queensland, the 2 State instruments that apply to particular council areas, and a page for each of the State’s 78 local government areas. Each council page lists every instrument that applies in that area, including its local plan where the plan is held.
Each entry records the version in force, a plain-English description and a link to the official text. Every instrument is checked against its official publisher each month, and a new version is recorded when it takes effect. Descriptions are APN’s own and are not legal advice; the official version of each instrument prevails.
Commonwealth laws that apply across Australia are listed on the national page →
2How the Rules Fit Together
Planning law in Queensland is set by the Planning Act 2016 and the Planning Regulation 2017. Each council's planning scheme sets zoning and assessment rules for its area and must reflect State planning interests. Other Acts and regulations govern building, sale and conveyancing, renting, strata and community titles, land tax and duty, heritage, hazards and real estate agents across the State.
3Council Areas
78 local government areas, 14 of them with their local plan listed.
| Council Area and Local Plan | Instruments | Page |
|---|---|---|
| AurukunLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| BalonneLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| BananaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| BarcaldineLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| BarcooLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Blackall TamboLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| BouliaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| BrisbaneBrisbane City Plan 2014 | 54 | Rules → |
| BullooLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| BundabergBundaberg Regional Council Planning Scheme 2015 | 52 | Rules → |
| BurdekinLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| BurkeLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| CairnsCairnsPlan 2016 | 52 | Rules → |
| CarpentariaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Cassowary CoastLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Central HighlandsLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Charters TowersLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| CherbourgLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| CloncurryLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| CookLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| CroydonLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| DiamantinaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| DoomadgeeLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| DouglasLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| EtheridgeLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| FlindersLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Fraser CoastFraser Coast Planning Scheme 2014 | 52 | Rules → |
| GladstoneLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Gold CoastCity Plan (City of Gold Coast) | 52 | Rules → |
| GoondiwindiLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| GympieLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| HinchinbrookLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Hope ValeLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| IpswichIpswich City Plan 2025 | 52 | Rules → |
| IsaacLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| KowanyamaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| LivingstoneLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Lockhart RiverLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Lockyer ValleyLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| LoganLogan Planning Scheme 2015 | 52 | Rules → |
| LongreachLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| MackayMackay Region Planning Scheme 2017 | 52 | Rules → |
| MapoonLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| MaranoaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| MareebaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| McKinlayLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Moreton BayMoreton Bay Regional Council Planning Scheme 2016 | 52 | Rules → |
| MorningtonLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Mount IsaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| MurwehLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| NapranumLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| NoosaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| North BurnettLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Northern Peninsula AreaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Palm IslandLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| ParooLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| PormpuraawLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| QuilpieLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| RedlandRedland City Plan | 52 | Rules → |
| RichmondLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| RockhamptonRockhampton Region Planning Scheme | 52 | Rules → |
| Scenic RimLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| SomersetLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| South BurnettLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Southern DownsLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Sunshine CoastSunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014 | 52 | Rules → |
| TablelandsLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| ToowoombaToowoomba Regional Planning Scheme | 52 | Rules → |
| TorresLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Torres Strait IslandLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| TownsvilleTownsville City Plan | 52 | Rules → |
| WeipaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Western DownsLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| WhitsundayLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| WintonLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| WoorabindaLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| Wujal WujalLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
| YarrabahLocal plan not listed | 51 | Rules → |
4Latest Versions
20 of the 53 State instruments have a version that took effect in the 90 days to 17 September 2026. The most recent:
- 11 September 2026: Planning Regulation 2017. Official →
- 3 September 2026: Planning and Environment Court Act 2016. Official →
- 3 September 2026: Planning Act 2016. Official →
- 1 September 2026: Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Regulation 2025. Official →
- 1 September 2026: Queensland Building and Construction Commission Regulation 2018. Official →
- 1 September 2026: Property Law Regulation 2024. Official →
- 17 August 2026: Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008. Official →
- 14 August 2026: Building Regulation 2021. Official →
5Instruments for Particular Council Areas
These State instruments apply only in the council areas named, and appear on those areas’ pages.
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Brisbane Act 2010Provides for how the Brisbane City Council is constituted and for its responsibilities and powers, which differ from other Queensland local governments because Brisbane is the capital city and the largest local government service provider. It aims for accountable, effective, efficient and sustainable local government in Brisbane.Applies in: Brisbane | QLD | Act | 1 Jul 2026 | Official → |
| City of Brisbane Regulation 2012Supports the City of Brisbane Act 2010 by fixing Brisbane's external and ward boundaries and providing for boundary changes, council business activities including full cost pricing, commercialisation and competitive neutrality, and roads and infrastructure. It regulates rates and charges, concessions and overdue amounts, financial planning and accountability, and contracting. It also covers enforcement of local government laws, councillor remuneration and advisors, registers of interests, delegations and administrative action complaints.Applies in: Brisbane | QLD | Regulation | 1 Jul 2026 | Official → |
6Planning and Development
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acquisition of Land Act 1967Consolidates and amends Queensland law on taking land for public works and other public purposes. It provides for constructing authorities to take land, including land needed for multi-parcel purposes such as roads and railways, sets out powers to enter land for inspection and survey, and deals with claims for compensation. | QLD | Act | 22 Jul 2024 | Official → |
| Economic Development Act 2012Facilitates economic development, development for community purposes, diverse housing including social and affordable housing, and premises for commercial or industrial uses in Queensland. It provides for MEDQ to deliver development in declared priority development areas and lead place renewal, and applies Housing Act regulation to entities MEDQ assists in providing social housing. | QLD | Act | 30 Jun 2025 | Official → |
| Planning Act 2016Establishes Queensland's framework for planning land use and assessing development, intended to be efficient, transparent, integrated and accountable and to support ecological sustainability. It frames ecological sustainability as balancing protection of ecological processes, economic development and community wellbeing, and includes provisions protecting registered existing uses from the effects of encroachment by newer nearby uses. | QLD | Act | 3 Sep 2026 | Official → |
| Planning and Environment Court Act 2016Continues the Planning and Environment Court in Queensland as a court of record constituted by appointed District Court judges, and sets out its jurisdiction and administration. It also provides for alternative dispute resolution processes that help parties to proceedings reach an early and inexpensive settlement. | QLD | Act | 3 Sep 2026 | Official → |
| Economic Development Regulation 2023Supports Queensland's economic development legislation by defining affordable rent and purchase prices against household income and identifying first home buyer and key worker households through published housing needs analyses for priority development areas. It also deals with categories of development, provisional and declared priority development areas, expiry of interim land use plans, transitioned UDAs, approval of plans of subdivision and temporary use licences. | QLD | Regulation | 7 Aug 2026 | Official → |
| Planning Regulation 2017Supports the Planning Act 2016 by prescribing regions for State planning instruments and the regulated requirements for the content of local planning instruments, including the zones they may use. It also contains provisions that allowed local governments to adopt economic support instruments to assist recovery from the COVID-19 emergency. | QLD | Regulation | 11 Sep 2026 | Official → |
| Planning and Environment Court Rules 2018Sets rules for proceedings in the Planning and Environment Court in Queensland, applying District Court rules where these rules are silent. It allows the court to waive or excuse noncompliance and impose sanctions, and includes a code of conduct stating the obligations of experts who give opinion evidence in court proceedings. | QLD | Rules | 16 Feb 2024 | Official → |
7Building and Construction
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building Act 1975Regulates building development approvals, building work and the classification of buildings in Queensland, together with building certifiers and pool safety inspectors. It also deals with swimming pool safety, sustainable buildings and dividing fence disputes between neighbours, and operates alongside the Planning Act. | QLD | Act | 1 Feb 2026 | Official → |
| Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991Regulates the Queensland building industry to maintain proper standards and balance the interests of building contractors, owners and consumers, including through the regulation of domestic building contracts. It provides remedies for defective building work, regulates the safety of building products, supports education and advice, and governs the Queensland Building and Construction Commission. | QLD | Act | 1 Feb 2026 | Official → |
| Building Regulation 2021Supports Queensland's building legislation by declaring particular building work to be accepted development and prescribing matters that local laws, planning instruments and council resolutions may address. It regulates smoke alarms in domestic dwellings, swimming pool safety and pool safety inspectors, competent persons, cadet building certifiers, inspections of assessable building work, certificates and public cyclone shelters. Schedules cover minor repairs, the Queensland Development Code, demerit points and fees. | QLD | Regulation | 14 Aug 2026 | Official → |
| Queensland Building and Construction Commission Regulation 2018Supports the Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991, including by specifying work that is not building work or fire protection work, who is a licensed builder, and how storeys are counted. It also prescribes fees, approves board policies on rectification of building work and minimum financial requirements, and provides for examining building products. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Sep 2026 | Official → |
8Buying, Selling and Title
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land Act 1994Consolidates and amends Queensland law governing non-freehold land and land held under deeds of grant in trust, and how freehold land is created. It requires such land to be managed for the benefit of Queenslanders under principles including sustainable resource use and land evaluation, and regulates leases, including their subdivision and amalgamation. | QLD | Act | 28 Apr 2026 | Official → |
| Land Title Act 1994Consolidates and reforms Queensland law on registering freehold land and interests in that land. It defines the rights of those holding registered interests, continues and improves the system for registering and transferring title, sets out the registrar of titles' functions and powers, and supports the use of information technology in keeping land registers. | QLD | Act | 1 Aug 2025 | Official → |
| Property Law Act 2023Consolidates Queensland law relating to property, applying to land in the State and to other property and documents where Queensland general law applies. It operates subject to the land title, land and resource legislation, and deals with matters such as powers of appointment and dispositions under trusts, including abolishing the common law rule against perpetuities. | QLD | Act | 28 Apr 2026 | Official → |
| Land Regulation 2020Supports the Land Act 1994 in Queensland, including how trustees of reserves and deeds of grant in trust adopt model by-laws. It also sets standard terms for subleases, such as the sublessee's duty of care and limits on holding over, and deals with amounts calculated in fee units such as minimum rent. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Jul 2025 | Official → |
| Land Title Regulation 2022Specifies which land title instruments, such as transfers, mortgages and their releases, caveats, priority notices and applications by personal representatives, are required instruments. It requires those instruments to be lodged or deposited through an Electronic Lodgment Network where electronic lodgment is available, subject to exceptions such as where the network lacks the necessary functionality. | QLD | Regulation | 20 Feb 2023 | Official → |
| Property Law Regulation 2024Supports Queensland's property law legislation by prescribing subordinate legislation for the Act and the documents to accompany a seller's disclosure statement on the sale of a lot, including title searches, survey plans and building, planning and work notices. Other prescribed information about the lot covers tree disputes, transport infrastructure proposals, heritage listing, resumption notices, pools, and rates and water service charges. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Sep 2026 | Official → |
9Renting and Residential Communities
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufactured Homes (Residential Parks) Act 2003Regulates the positioning and occupancy of manufactured homes in Queensland residential parks and promotes fair trading in park operations, protecting home owners from unfair business practices and supporting informed choices. It governs site agreements, disclosure to prospective home owners and the sale of abandoned homes, and establishes a buyback and rent reduction scheme that applies in particular circumstances. | QLD | Act | 7 Jun 2026 | Official → |
| Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008Sets out the rights and obligations of tenants, lessors and agents in Queensland residential tenancies, and of residents, providers and agents in rooming accommodation. It regulates how agreements are made, operate and end, provides for dispute resolution and the handling of rental bonds, and establishes the authority with compliance and enforcement functions. | QLD | Act | 17 Aug 2026 | Official → |
| Retirement Villages Act 1999Governs how retirement villages in Queensland are established and operated, promoting consumer protection and fair trading by setting out what residents and scheme operators are entitled to and must do, and by requiring disclosure to prospective residents. It sets minimum requirements for residence contracts, scheme registration and capital replacement funds, and seeks to support industry viability and financial transparency. | QLD | Act | 28 Apr 2026 | Official → |
| Manufactured Homes (Residential Parks) Regulation 2017Supports Queensland's manufactured homes legislation by prescribing information for registering residential parks, particulars for site agreements, and the content of comparison documents, disclosure documents and agreements to sell a manufactured home positioned on a site. It also deals with varying site rent, park emergency plans, and the information, consultation and other requirements for maintenance and capital replacement plans. | QLD | Regulation | 7 Jun 2026 | Official → |
| Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Regulation 2025Supports the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008 in Queensland, including by prescribing the information a required tenancy application form may seek from prospective tenants. It also sets out the reasons, including amounts owed above a set threshold, for which a former tenant's personal information may be listed in a tenancy database. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Sep 2026 | Official → |
| Retirement Villages Regulation 2018Supports Queensland's retirement villages legislation by prescribing particulars for registering a scheme, the matters closure, transition and redevelopment plans must state, and the details required in residence contracts, village comparison documents, prospective costs documents and waivers. It also sets requirements for condition reports, operational documents, fund budgets, financial statements, audit reports and quantity surveyor reports, and provides for fees and exempt villages. | QLD | Regulation | 14 Jun 2024 | Official → |
10Strata and Community Title
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997Provides for establishing and administering community titles schemes in Queensland, with the aim of flexible, contemporary communal arrangements for using freehold land. It balances individual rights against self-management responsibilities, supports economic development and tourism potential, and provides for dispute resolution through departmental conciliation and mediation. | QLD | Act | 1 Aug 2025 | Official → |
| Building Units and Group Titles Act 1980Provides for subdividing land into lots both horizontally and vertically and for dealings in the titles to those lots. It continues bodies corporate and schemes created under the earlier building units and group titles legislation, and governs body corporate meetings and the obligations of original proprietors. | QLD | Act | 1 Aug 2025 | Official → |
| Body Corporate and Community Management (Standard Module) Regulation 2020Serves as the default regulation module for community titles schemes in Queensland where no other module applies. It sets out administrative arrangements for bodies corporate, including the appointment and use of proxies at committee meetings and general meetings, which a body corporate may restrict by special resolution. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Aug 2025 | Official → |
| Body Corporate and Community Management Regulation 2008Supports the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 in Queensland by setting the fees payable under that Act and the method for rounding fees expressed in fee units. It also lets an individual apply to the commissioner to waive a particular application fee on financial hardship grounds, with the commissioner able to consider concession card status and require supporting evidence. | QLD | Regulation | 29 Jan 2024 | Official → |
11Land Tax, Duties and Valuation
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duties Act 2001Creates and imposes State duties in Queensland, operating together with the taxation administration legislation that deals with assessment, collection, objections and enforcement. It includes concessions on mortgage duty for home and home refinance mortgages, and rules for apportioning insurance premiums between States so that duty is not paid more than once. | QLD | Act | 1 Aug 2026 | Official → |
| Land Tax Act 2010Imposes land tax on the taxable value of all taxable land in Queensland for each financial year, operating together with the taxation administration legislation that governs assessments, payments, objections and enforcement. It also includes provisions allowing the tax benefit obtained from avoidance schemes to be countered through assessment. | QLD | Act | 1 Aug 2025 | Official → |
| Land Valuation Act 2010Provides for how land in Queensland is valued for the purposes of other Acts, including liability for land tax. It requires the valuer-general to decide land values through annual valuations of all land in a local government area and through maintenance valuations. | QLD | Act | 28 Apr 2026 | Official → |
| Taxation Administration Act 2001Makes general provision for administering and enforcing Queensland revenue laws, such as those on duties, payroll tax and land tax, each of which is read together with this Act as a single scheme. It also applies to recognised laws and sets out offences and penalties for contraventions of tax laws. | QLD | Act | 28 Feb 2025 | Official → |
| Duties Regulation 2023Supports the Duties Act 2001 in Queensland. It declares particular unit trusts to be public unit trusts, including trusts for approved investors with the Queensland Investment Corporation or its subsidiary as trustee, and applies transfer duty concessions and exemptions to transfers and lodgements made through electronic lodgement networks. It also sets the share of travel insurance premiums that attracts duty, the apportionment of premiums and the activities of a prescribed business. | QLD | Regulation | 1 May 2025 | Official → |
| Land Tax Regulation 2021Supports Queensland's land tax legislation by listing activities treated as primary production, including keeping animals for sale, cultivating land, growing plants or mushrooms, plantation forestry, agriculture, dairying, pasturage and related support activities. It also sets a household asset limit, tied to Commonwealth social security asset thresholds, used in deciding whether a person is an eligible tenant. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Jul 2023 | Official → |
| Taxation Administration Regulation 2022Supports Queensland's taxation administration legislation by prescribing electronic payment methods for duties, payroll tax, land tax, betting tax, royalties and associated penalty tax, interest, costs and fees. It also lists recognised tax laws of the Commonwealth, the other States and the Territories together with the officials responsible for them, and prescribes the expenses payable to a person required to attend a place. | QLD | Regulation | 2 Sep 2022 | Official → |
12Heritage and Environment
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Protection and Management Act 1995Provides for protecting, conserving, rehabilitating and managing Queensland's coastal zone, its resources and biodiversity, and for ensuring land use and development decisions safeguard life and property from coastal hazards. It defines the coastal zone, provides for a coastal plan and coastal management districts, regulates activities and structures in those districts and erosion prone areas, and requires regular reporting on the state of the coast. | QLD | Act | 26 Apr 2024 | Official → |
| Environmental Protection Act 1994Protects Queensland's environment while allowing development that improves quality of life, consistent with ecologically sustainable development. It does so through a cyclical, integrated management program covering environmental objectives and strategies, their implementation and accountability, and includes a process allowing proponents to voluntarily prepare an environmental impact statement for a project. | QLD | Act | 29 Jun 2026 | Official → |
| Nature Conservation Act 1992Provides for the conservation of nature in Queensland through an integrated statewide conservation strategy, while allowing Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples to take part in managing protected areas in which they hold a traditional interest. It also provides for matters such as captive breeding agreements to support native wildlife in the wild. | QLD | Act | 16 Jun 2026 | Official → |
| Queensland Heritage Act 1992Provides for conserving Queensland's cultural heritage for the community and future generations. It establishes the Queensland Heritage Council and a register of places of State heritage significance, requires discoveries of archaeological and underwater artefacts to be reported, provides for local government management of locally significant places, regulates development affecting registered places, and provides for heritage agreements and enforcement. | QLD | Act | 22 Jul 2024 | Official → |
| Vegetation Management Act 1999Regulates the clearing of vegetation in Queensland to conserve remnant regional ecosystems and vegetation in declared areas, avoid land degradation and biodiversity loss, maintain ecological processes, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and allow sustainable land use. It sets assessment benchmarks for clearing under the planning framework and provides for declared areas, a State vegetation management policy, accepted development clearing codes and enforcement. | QLD | Act | 27 Apr 2026 | Official → |
| Water Act 2000Establishes a framework for managing Queensland's water resources and quarry material sustainably, through a system for planning, allocating and using water and for riverine protection. It also covers secure water supply and demand management for south-east Queensland and other designated regions, management of impacts on underground water from resource sector activities, the operation of water authorities, and requirements for measuring water taken. | QLD | Act | 1 Jul 2026 | Official → |
| Coastal Protection and Management Regulation 2017Supports the Coastal Protection and Management Act 1995 by approving the coastal zone map, continuing the coastal management district and fixing coastal building lines. It also sets a code for assessing prescribed tidal works so they suit local character, are structurally sound, safe and serviced, and do not significantly affect public access or the natural features of tidal water. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Jul 2026 | Official → |
| Environmental Protection Regulation 2019Supports the Environmental Protection Act 1994 in Queensland, including provisions on environmental impact statements for projects needing Commonwealth or State approval. It gives effect to the national pollutant inventory measure through reporting obligations on facility occupiers, and allows eligible holders of environmental authorities to pay reduced annual fees. | QLD | Regulation | 21 Jun 2026 | Official → |
| Nature Conservation (Protected Areas Management) Regulation 2024Supports the Nature Conservation Act 1992 in the management of Queensland's protected areas, defining concepts such as the character of an area. It regulates commercial activity agreements, requiring conservation conditions that advance the object of the Act, and sets out an expression of interest process for entering those agreements. | QLD | Regulation | 4 Jul 2026 | Official → |
| Queensland Heritage Regulation 2015Prescribes matters under the Queensland Heritage Act 1992, including the details required in reports on proposed State development affecting Queensland heritage places. It also contains a code for assessing development on local heritage places, aimed at preventing demolition or removal where a prudent and feasible alternative exists and keeping development compatible with each place's heritage significance. | QLD | Regulation | 11 Mar 2022 | Official → |
| Vegetation Management Regulation 2023Supports Queensland's vegetation management legislation by approving accepted development clearing codes covering native forest practice, extractive industry, infrastructure, agricultural efficiency, fodder harvesting, regrowth, weeds, environmental clearing and encroachment. It prescribes tree species, some subject to trunk diameter thresholds, for applying development approvals and exemptions under forestry legislation, and sets the fees payable under the Act. | QLD | Regulation | 22 Nov 2023 | Official → |
| Water Regulation 2016Supports Queensland's Water Act 2000 on identifying watercourses and their outer banks, water rights and planning, statutory authorisations to take or interfere with water, water licences, seasonal assignments and water allocations. It deals with supply and demand management, an underground water management levy, water authorities, enforcement, measuring water taken, water bore drillers and the link with planning law, including a code for new or modified levees. Schedules set water sharing rules, charges, royalties, drainage rates and fees. | QLD | Regulation | 26 Jun 2026 | Official → |
13Natural Hazards and Fire
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Services Act 1990Constitutes Rural Fire Service Queensland and Queensland Fire and Rescue, and sets a framework for how they operate, are managed and administered, with a fund for particular purposes. It provides for preventing and responding to fires and other emergency incidents, rescue services, and controls on lighting fires, including permits and offences. | QLD | Act | 6 Dec 2025 | Official → |
14Real Estate Agents
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Property Occupations Act 2014Regulates the licensing, activities and conduct of property agents, resident letting agents and their employees in Queensland, and protects consumers from particular undesirable practices, including in promoting residential property. It restricts licensing to suitable, qualified persons, regulates fees and commissions, and addresses consumer dealings with marketeers and related enforcement. | QLD | Act | 1 Aug 2025 | Official → |
| Property Occupations Regulation 2014Supports the Property Occupations Act 2014 in Queensland by defining limited property agent licences, including one confined to letting and rent collection under approved affordable housing rental schemes and held by people connected with approved non-profit corporations. It sets general requirements for licensees and real estate salespersons, document keeping, and conduct standards for property agents, salespersons, auctioneers and resident letting agents. It also provides for shorter licence terms, fees and transitional matters. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Jul 2022 | Official → |
15Local Government
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Government Act 2009Sets out how Queensland local governments are constituted and the scope of their responsibilities and powers, aiming for a system of local government that is accountable, effective, efficient and sustainable. It also allows the State to monitor council performance and take remedial action, and provides for investigating councillor conduct. | QLD | Act | 1 Jul 2026 | Official → |
| Local Government Regulation 2012Supports the Local Government Act 2009 in Queensland by describing the boundaries of local government areas and divisions, fixing councillor numbers, and naming and classifying areas as a city, town, shire or region. It also contains transitional provisions, including one making a regional council the successor in law of another entity and limits on varying councillor remuneration for a set period. | QLD | Regulation | 1 Jul 2026 | Official → |
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