Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An Island council has and may discharge the functions of local government of its council area and is hereby charged with the good rule and government thereof in accordance with the customs and practices of the Islanders concerned and for that purpose may make by-laws and enforce the observance of all by-laws lawfully made by it.
(2) By-laws made by an Island council may adopt wholly or partly local laws made by any local government within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 or by any other Island council or other authority or the provisions of any Act or regulations made under any Act.
(3) Without limiting the functions and powers of an Island council, a council may make by-laws for promoting, maintaining, regulating and controlling--
(a) the peace, order, discipline, comfort, health, moral safety, convenience, food supply, housing and welfare of its council area;
(b) the planning, development and embellishment of its council area;
(c) the business and working of the local government of its council area.
(4) Without limiting the functions and powers of an Island council, a council may make by-laws--
(a) not inconsistent with part 6, for the purpose of regulating and controlling the possession or consumption of alcohol in its council area; or
(b) conferring functions on the community justice group for its council area.
(5) Matters with respect to which an Island council may exercise its powers and discharge its functions include--
(a) the provision, construction, maintenance, management, and control of roads, bridges, viaducts, culverts, baths and bathing places;
(b) the undertaking and execution of work in connection therewith;
(c) the regulation of the usage thereof;
(d) health, sanitation, cleansing, scavenging and drainage, the removal, suppression and abatement of nuisances, public conveniences, water conservation, agricultural drainage, village planning, subdivision of land, the usage and occupation of land, building, the usage and occupation of buildings, protection from fire, boundaries and fences, disposal of the dead, the destruction of weeds and animals;
(e) the lending of amounts to adult residents of its council area;
(f) works, matters and things that, in its opinion, are necessary or conducive to the good rule and government of its council area or to the wellbeing of its inhabitants;
(g) the doing of anything (other than the mere making available of information) that a local government within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 is required or authorised to do by any other Act, other than the Local Government Act 1993.
(6) Where any other Act, other than the Local Government Act 1993, requires or authorises a local government within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 to do anything (other than the mere making available of information), then, for the purpose of applying that other Act in a council area, that other Act shall be so construed that--
(a) the expression 'local government' therein shall be deemed to include the Island council established for the area; and
(b) the Island council established for the area shall be the local government for the area to the exclusion of any local government within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993.
(7) For the purpose of exercising its powers and discharging its functions, an Island council has the powers to carry on any business enterprise that the council believes can be profitably or effectually carried on.
(8) The power conferred on an Island council to regulate or control includes power to license or permit or to refuse to license or permit and to prohibit by by-law made in that behalf.
(9) Fees, charges, fares, rents, and dues may be imposed by by-law or resolution of an Island council.
(10) A by-law of an Island council may impose a penalty in respect of any breach thereof or of another by-law but any such penalty--
(a) shall not exceed an amount equal to 20 penalty units; or
(b) if it is expressed as a daily penalty--shall not exceed an amount equal to 1 penalty unit per day.
(11) For the purposes of exercising its powers and discharging its functions an Island council may engage such servants and agents as it thinks fit.