Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The functions of the advisory council are to advise the Minister about coastal management including the following issues--
(a) areas of the coastal zone needing special coastal management;
(b) coastal plans and their relationship with other plans, prepared by a State agency or local government, for the coastal zone;
(c) appropriate preventive and remedial measures for coastal management;
(d) assistance local governments and other management agencies need in the application of coastal management techniques;
(e) developing public and community programs for coastal management;
(f) research and other studies relating to the coastal zone and disseminating information about coastal management;
(g) submissions received on coastal management plans.
(2) The measures mentioned in subsection (1)(c) may relate to--
(a) preventing a thing having an unacceptable effect on the coastal zone; and
(b) mitigating damage to property from erosion or tidal inundation.
(3) In performing its functions, the advisory council must, as far as practicable--
(a) monitor the integration of coastal zone management; and
(b) have regard to Aboriginal tradition and Island custom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people particularly concerned with land in the coastal zone; and
(c) liaise and consult with Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders particularly concerned with land in the coastal zone; and
(d) have regard to the existing tenure of, interests in, and rights to land in the coastal zone.