Marine Parks Act 2004
LegislationReferenced in 12 bills
Fisheries (Sustainable Fisheries Strategy) Amendment Bill 2018
This bill overhauls Queensland's fisheries management by introducing harvest strategies as the key tool for managing fish stocks, strengthening enforcement against black marketing of seafood, and formally recognising charter fishing and Indigenous fishing in the law. It implements the Queensland Sustainable Fisheries Strategy 2017-2027, backed by $20.9 million in funding for better monitoring, compliance and stakeholder engagement.
Planning and Development (Planning for Prosperity—Consequential Amendments) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
This bill changes 67 Queensland Acts so they line up with a proposed new planning system (the Planning and Development Bill 2015 and Planning and Environment Court Bill 2015) that would have replaced the Sustainable Planning Act 2009. Most changes are technical — swapping old planning terms for new ones — but the bill also streamlines environmental approvals for major coordinated projects and clarifies the Coordinator-General's power to authorise entry onto land in State Development Areas such as the Galilee Basin.
Sunshine Coast Waterways Authority Bill 2026
This bill sets up the Sunshine Coast Waterways Authority, a new government body to plan for and manage the region's rivers, creeks, lakes and passages in one coordinated place. It must produce a 10-year strategy and yearly programs, manage navigational access and marine infrastructure, and monitor sand and sediment movement, while marine safety and pollution rules stay with Maritime Safety Queensland.
Sunshine Coast Waterways Authority Bill 2026
This bill establishes the Sunshine Coast Waterways Authority, a new statutory body to plan for and manage the region's waterways from Pumicestone Passage to the Noosa River. It responds to community concerns about fragmented waterway management across multiple councils and State agencies, particularly around the Bribie Island breakthrough. The authority will manage infrastructure, navigational access, and sand and sediment movement, with $35.6 million in government funding over three years.
Sustainable Ports Development Bill 2015
This bill protects the Great Barrier Reef by tightly controlling port development along the Queensland coast. It confines new port facilities and capital dredging to four priority ports (Abbot Point, Gladstone, Hay Point/Mackay and Townsville) and bans sea dumping of port dredge spoil in the World Heritage Area. Each priority port must have a long-term master plan and a port overlay that sets consistent rules across local planning schemes.
Nature Conservation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
This bill rolls back several 2013 changes to Queensland's nature conservation laws to strengthen protection of national parks. It restores 'conservation of nature' as the sole purpose of the Nature Conservation Act 1992, brings back three distinct classes of protected area with their own management rules, and restores the requirement for public consultation before management plans are changed.
Nature Conservation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill extends beekeeping access on specified national parks for 20 years until 2044, creates new offences for impersonating rangers and forest officers across Queensland's parks and forests, modernises enforcement powers for conservation officers, and updates governance arrangements for the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.
Environmental Protection (Efficiency and Streamlining) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
This bill rewrites parts of Queensland's environmental laws with the stated aim of cutting red tape and modernising how activities affecting the environment are regulated. Its centrepiece is a new 'code' system that lets lower-risk activities operate by following standard rules instead of holding an individual licence, alongside changes to mine rehabilitation, prosecution powers, groundwater rules and tourism permits. It amends more than a dozen Acts, so it bundles several distinct reforms together.
Environmental Protection (Efficiency and Streamlining) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
This bill changes how Queensland regulates 'environmentally relevant activities', allowing some to operate under a standard code instead of an individual environmental authority, and removes the requirement for small-scale miners to pay a financial surety. It also makes related changes across 13 other Acts, covering groundwater make-good arrangements for bore owners, a single tourism permit for parks and forests, conservation officer powers, and longer prosecution timeframes.
Police Service Administration and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
This bill modernises the security framework for Queensland Government buildings by repealing the State Buildings Protective Security Act 1983 and integrating Protective Services into the Queensland Police Service. It creates a single category of protective services officer (PSO) with standardised powers and introduces new accountability measures including a register of enforcement acts.
Nature Conservation (Special Wildlife Reserves) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
This bill creates a new kind of protected area in Queensland called a 'special wildlife reserve', letting private landholders lock in permanent, national-park-level protection over land of outstanding conservation value while keeping it in private ownership. It also makes sure existing conservation agreements on leasehold land are not lost when the lease is renewed, converted or transferred, and closes a small regulatory gap for activities straddling Queensland and Commonwealth waters in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Planning (Consequential) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
This bill updates 68 other Queensland laws so they work with the new Planning Act 2016 and Planning and Environment Court Act 2016, which together replace the Sustainable Planning Act 2009. It mostly changes terminology and cross-references, removes duplicated or outdated planning steps, and sets transitional rules so any application already lodged is finished under the old system.