Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A local government is an elected body that is charged with the good rule and local government of a part of Queensland allocated to the body.
(2) Another Act, whenever made, may provide for the way in which a local government is constituted and the nature and extent of its functions and powers.
(3) Despite subsection (1), another Act, whenever made, may provide for the appointment of 1 or more bodies or persons to perform all or any of a local government's functions and to exercise all or any of a local government's powers and to be taken to be a local government--
(a) during a suspension of a local government's councillors under section 74; or
(b) if a local government is dissolved or unable to be properly elected--until a local government has been properly elected.
(4) In subsection (3)--
local government includes a joint local government.