Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If at any time--
(a) an indigenous council concerned with the lease in question; or
(b) the Minister; or
(c) the Minister administering the Land Act 1994;
suspects on reasonable grounds that a lease provided for by section 9(2) is liable to be forfeited for any cause other than default in payment of rent, the council or, as the case may be, the Minister in question may cause to be given to the lessee, either personally or by registered post addressed to the lessee at the tenement or the lessee's place of residence last known to the council or, as the case may be the Minister in question, a notice in writing--
(d) specifying the alleged cause of forfeiture; and
(e) calling on the lessee to appear before the visiting justice upon the visiting justice's attendance in the trust area in which the tenement in question would, but for the existence of the lease, be situated next following the expiration of 30 days after the notice is given to the lessee;
and if the notice is so given the council or, as the case may be, the Minister in question shall cause a notice of a prescribed size to be exhibited in a prominent position on the tenement, at or near the entrance thereto, for a period of 30 days at the least, that the tenement is liable to be forfeited.
(2) The visiting justice upon the occasion of the visiting justice's attendance in the trust area in question next following the expiration of the 30 days referred to in subsection (1) or at any adjournment of the proceedings, shall proceed to investigate the matter of the forfeiture of the lease and shall forward the evidence taken by the visiting justice together with his or her report and recommendations thereon to the Minister and to the Minister administering the Land Act 1994.
(3) The Minister administering the Land Act 1994, if the Minister is satisfied that liability to forfeiture has been established and that the lease in question should be forfeited, may recommend accordingly to the Governor in Council who may declare and notify the forfeiture as prescribed.