Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person, other than a person performing duties under this Act, shall not at any time light, maintain or use or cause, permit or suffer to be lit, maintained or used, a fire on any land within any State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area for the purpose of, or which is likely to have the effect of, burning off or clearing any vegetation on or from the land within the State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area except in accordance with an authority given by a permit obtained under the Fire and Rescue Service Act 1990, part 7 and then remaining in force.
(2) Any person who is convicted of an offence against this section may on conviction, in addition to the penalty imposed, be ordered by the court to pay to the chief executive in respect of any damage or injury and the costs of controlling and extinguishing any fire occasioned or caused by the commission of such offence, such amount as is fixed by the court after taking the evidence on oath of a forest officer as to the nature and extent of such damage or injury and costs of controlling or extinguishing the fire and, in default of payment thereof, such amount may be recovered in the same way as a pecuniary penalty.
(3) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in diminution of or substitution for the provisions of any other enactment of this Act.