Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive may authorise the erection or display in relation to a State forest or a part of a State forest of notices for the purpose of regulating or prohibiting--
(a) the use of the State forest or that part of the State forest by persons; or
(b) the use in the State forest or that part of the State forest of vehicles or vehicles included in a specified class of vehicles; or
(c) the bringing into the State forest or that part of the State forest of animals or animals included in a specified class of animals.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the chief executive may authorise the erection or display of regulatory notices in the form of official traffic signs.
(3) A regulatory notice--
(a) may be erected or displayed within, or at or near the entrances to, the State forest or the part of the State forest to which the notice relates; and
(b) must specify or indicate a particular requirement or particular requirements to be complied with by persons entering, or in, the State forest or that part of the State forest; and
(c) may expressly state that a contravention of a requirement contained on the notice constitutes an offence against this Act.
(4) A regulatory notice referred to in subsection (2) is, for the purposes of subsection (3)(b), taken to contain the direction or indication given by the corresponding official traffic sign.
(5) A person must not knowingly or recklessly contravene or fail to comply with a requirement contained on a regulatory notice.
(6) Evidence that a regulatory notice was erected or displayed at a place referred to in subsection (3)(a) is evidence that the notice was so erected or displayed with the authority of the chief executive.