This Act creates a comprehensive permitting and regulatory system for finding, exploring and mining minerals in the State. It confirms Crown ownership of most minerals, sets out tenement types and application/renewal/surrender processes, and imposes access, environmental, reporting, rental, royalty and security obligations on applicants and holders....

The Petroleum Act 1923 declares petroleum in Queensland to be State property and establishes the permit and lease framework that governs exploration, production and sale. It affects energy companies, landowners and other resource users by defining access, duties (safety, environmental controls and decommissioning), compensation and royalties so petroleum...

This Act converts Queensland petroleum into a licence‑based regime: who may search, produce, store, transport and process petroleum (and related gases), what permissions are needed, and how safety, environmental and consultation obligations must be met. It affects explorers, producers, pipeline and facility operators, landholders, mining tenement holders,...

This Act retroactively validates many past and some intermediate period State acts that might otherwise be invalid due to native title, treating them as always valid. That validation can extinguish, suspend or leave native title intact depending on the act, while confirming State ownership and regulatory rights over resources and public access. Compensation...

This Act sets rules for Queensland local governments: who they are, how they raise and manage money, run their businesses, and how councillors and senior staff must behave. It creates a new independent integrity system, stronger financial controls, enforcement tools and personal liabilities for certain misconduct. It matters because it changes who pays and...

The Water Act 2000 centralises State ownership and management of water and quarry material, creating licences, allocations, planning, trading, measurement and enforcement systems to sustain supplies (notably in South East Queensland) and manage underground‑water impacts from resource tenures. It affects landowners, resource tenure holders, water service...

The Electricity Act 1994 sets the rules for how electricity is produced, moved, and sold in Queensland. It creates a system that encourages efficient, cheap, and environmentally friendly electricity use. The act regulates companies involved in generating, transmitting, distributing, and selling power. It ensures customers are protected and promotes...

This Act fixes statutory time limits for bringing civil claims and arbitrations, sets rules for when rights accrue, and creates limited exceptions and court powers to extend or restart time so long dormant claims can sometimes proceed. It matters to claimants (who must act promptly or meet exceptions), defendants and successors (who gain certainty and...

The Nature Conservation Act 1992 is Queensland’s principal law for protecting biodiversity while allowing sustainable use. It establishes protected areas, classifies and regulates wildlife, requires management plans, and enables community and Indigenous participation (including joint management and traditional practices). The Act also permits voluntary...

This instrument sets the procedural framework for civil litigation in Queensland—how proceedings start, run, and are enforced. It governs forms, service (including cross‑border), timelines, disclosure, interim powers, enforcement remedies, costs assessment, electronic filing, and duties for experts and interpreters. It shapes who can sue or be joined, who...

The Fisheries Act 1994 sets Queensland’s system for managing fisheries and fish habitat: licences, permits, quotas, technical controls (eg vessel tracking), inspections, seizure and criminal penalties, and a shark‑control program. It makes the chief executive the primary decision‑maker, requires allocation to balance ecological, economic, social and...

This Act provides a single, consistent legal toolkit for interpreting and operating Queensland laws — setting default rules on how Acts are read, when they commence, how powers may be delegated, how fees are calculated, and what documentary evidence or verification is required. It affects drafters, courts, administrators, public officials and anyone subject...

The Forestry Act 1959 is Queensland's core law for managing public forests and timber resources. It allows the government to create and manage State forests (permanent areas for timber production, water protection, and recreation) and timber reserves (temporary areas for timber harvesting). The Act sets rules for appointing forest officers and plantation...

The Act modernises and consolidates the law for registering freehold land by preserving the Registrar, creating electronic capable registers and rules for lodging, examining and recording instruments, plans, community management statements and caveats. It mainly affects landowners, lenders, conveyancers, surveyors and developers by imposing form,...

This law centralises transport planning and operational control in the Minister and chief executive, setting annual programs and broad powers over State roads, rail, busway, light‑rail, ports and toll corridors. It creates approval regimes, land‑use and leasing rules, enforcement and cost‑recovery tools, and a local‑government toll framework. Affected...

This instrument creates a consolidated set of criminal offences and penalties for stealing and robbery, fraud and corruption by agents, misuse of computers and identification information, sporting‑integrity/match‑fixing offences, and destruction/sabotage of property and infrastructure. It raises maximum penalties and includes aggravating factors for value,...

This Act creates a framework for converting Queensland government entities into government‑owned corporations (GOCs), setting out the corporatisation process, Ministerial ownership and oversight, board governance, employee protections, and integrity/reporting rules. It affects the State as shareholder, shareholding Ministers, candidate entities and their...

The Act modernises and standardises trustees’ core powers—property dealings, investment, delegation, appointment/removal—and supplies statutory defences and indemnities. It applies broadly to trusts (unless excluded), affects trustees (including statutory trustees), beneficiaries, charities and certain prescribed trusts, and creates new procedural rules and...

This Act incorporates the national Australian Consumer Law into Queensland law, names the commissioner for fair trading as regulator, and gives that office broad investigatory and enforcement powers (infringement notices, seizure/embargo and preservation orders, civil and criminal remedies). It also extends ACL coverage extra‑territorially to persons and...

This Act prescribes the legal framework courts must use in civil damage claims: tests for breach and causation, statutory presumptions (e.g. risk, intoxication), caps and formulas for heads of loss, an injury‑scale with ministerial dollar notices, structured settlements, protections for volunteers/food donors, proportionate liability for economic/property...

The Act creates the Queensland Ambulance Service as a statutory agency with a chief executive and commissioner who run and oversee emergency response, patient transport, rescue support, disaster coordination and related services, funded through a dedicated QAS Fund and user charges. It enables local community committees to raise and manage funds under...

This Act creates a statewide framework for planning, using and regulating Queensland’s stock route network by setting a State strategy, requiring local plans, and controlling how people move, agist and access water on stock routes. It affects the State, prescribed local governments, landowners, graziers and other users by imposing permit, fee, maintenance...

This Act creates the rules for how state and local planning instruments are made, changed and enforced, how development is classified and assessed, and how infrastructure charges, agreements and designations operate. It affects Ministers, local governments, developers, landowners and referral agencies by allocating decision‑making powers, consultation...

This law sets out rules to keep people safe at work. It requires businesses (called 'persons conducting a business or undertaking' or PCBUs) to identify and remove or reduce risks to health and safety for their workers and anyone else who might be affected. Workers, including employees, contractors, and volunteers, must take reasonable care for their own...

This Act sets out how particular Queensland lands become or are managed as Aboriginal land: who may receive grants or transfers (land trusts, CATSI corporations, registered native title bodies corporate), how trustees may grant leases or interests, and strict limits on sale or mortgage. It creates procedures for declaring land transferable/claimable,...

This Act creates a single statutory route to challenge administrative decisions in the Supreme Court, covering state, state authority and local government actions and some publicly funded non‑statutory schemes. It lets adversely affected people seek review on specified grounds, obtain remedies (quashing, directions, declarations, injunctions), and request...

This Act sets the operational rules for practising law in the state: who may hold practising certificates or foreign‑law registrations, how certificates and registrations are granted, conditioned, renewed, amended, suspended or cancelled, and how trust money and trust accounts must be handled. It also creates the fidelity fund, external examination, audit,...

This Act updates how wills are made, changed, revoked and administered, giving the Supreme Court supervisory and discretionary powers to validate non‑standard instruments, authorise wills for minors or incapacitated people, and rectify mistakes. It affects testators, witnesses, executors/administrators, beneficiaries, creditors and anyone holding estate...