Regional Planning Interests (North Queensland Strategic Environmental Area) Amendment Regulation 2020

1Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Regional Planning Interests (North Queensland Strategic Environmental Area) Amendment Regulation 2020.

2Regulation amended

This regulation amends the Regional Planning Interests Regulation 2014.

3Amendment of sch 2 (Criteria for assessment or decision)

(1)Schedule 2, part 5, section 15(2)—
insert—

(aa)if the designated precinct is in the North Queensland strategic environmental area—a resource activity;

(2)Schedule 2, part 5, section 15(2)(aa) to (d)—
renumber as schedule 2, part 5, section 15(2)(b) to (e).

(3)Schedule 2, part 5, section 15(3)—
insert—

mining resource activity means a resource activity for which a resource authority mentioned in section 13(c) or (g) of the Act is required to lawfully carry out the activity.

North Queensland strategic environmental area means the area that is shown on a map as a strategic environmental area in the regional plan for the region prescribed under the Planning Regulation 2017, schedule 1 as the North Queensland region.