Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Where the title to land in respect of which any person or persons is or are entitled to a lease pursuant to section 9(2) is vested in an indigenous council the title shall, upon the approval referred to in section 9(2), divest from the council and the land shall thereupon become and be unallocated State land.
(2) Where land in respect of which any person or persons is or are entitled to a lease pursuant to section 9(2) is land reserved and set apart for a public purpose and under the control of a trustee, the land shall, upon the approval referred to in section 9(2), pass from the control of the council, cease to be land reserved and set apart and shall thereupon become and be unallocated State land.
(3) The purpose for which land shall become and be Crown land under subsection (1) or (2) is the issue of a lease in perpetuity or other appropriate lease, in accordance with this Act, to the qualified person or persons approved by the appropriate trustee council and no other authority shall be exercised on behalf of the Crown in respect of the land unless that lease has been issued.
(4) Upon land within an indigenous council area becoming Crown land under subsection (1) or (2) it ceases to be part of the trust area within which it is situated but for the purposes of--
(a) the discharge of the functions of local government within the trust area and the exercise of powers incidental thereto; and
(b) the making and levying of rates on and the charging of service charges in respect of the land; and
(c) the application of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities (Justice, Land and Other Matters) Act 1984 in respect of the land;
the land shall be deemed to be part of the trust area and the indigenous council in which the trust area is vested or in whose control the trust area is shall be deemed to be charged with the functions of local government in respect of the land.