Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A trustee council to which application under section 5 has been duly made--
(a) shall cause notice of the application to be plainly exhibited in a public place in the trust area for a period of 28 days and shall, within 10 days after the expiration of that period, determine whether the qualified person or persons who is or are seeking tenure of the land identified in the application should be granted the tenure; and
(b) shall, within 7 days after the determination under paragraph (a) is made, give notification in writing to the applicant of the determination and if it is a refusal of the application, notify the applicant in writing of the grounds for the refusal; and
(c) shall within 28 days after the determination under paragraph (a) is made, give notification in the prescribed form of the determination to the Minister who shall forthwith notify the Minister administering the Land Act 1994.
(2) A qualified person who is a resident of the community in the trust area where an application is made and any other person having, in the opinion of the trustee council, a bona fide interest in the matter of an application is entitled to object, orally or in writing, within the 28 days referred to in subsection (1)(a) to the approval of the application and the trustee council shall have regard to every such objection duly made to it when it is determining the matter of the application.
(3) In making its determination referred to in subsection (1)(a) a trustee council shall observe the following factors--
(a) security of tenure for qualified persons of land occupied or used or sought to be occupied or used by them;
(b) the social and economic development of the trust area within which the land in question is situated and of the community of qualified persons therein;
(c) the interest of the community of qualified persons resident in the trust area in the use made or to be made of land within the trust area;
giving to each factor such weight as the council considers proper in each case.