Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND COURT ACT 2000

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Dictionary

           Part 2--Land Court

           Division 1--Establishment and jurisdiction

   4.      Establishment of Land Court
   5.      Jurisdiction of Land Court
   6.      No distinction between Land Court and chambers

           Division 1A--Cultural heritage division

   6A.     Divisions of court
   6B.     Purpose of cultural heritage division

           Division 2--General powers

   7.      Land Court to be guided by equity and good conscience
   8.      Subpoenas
   9.      Contempt and contravention of orders
   10.     Terms of orders
   11.     Taking and recording evidence
   12.     Power to rehear matters

           Division 3--Composition and appointments

   13.     Composition of Land Court
   14.     Single member to constitute Land Court
   15.     Land Court may be constituted in more than 1 place
   16.     Appointment of president and other members of Land Court
   17.     Appointment of members of land tribunal as members
   18.     Appointment of acting president
   19.     Appointment of acting members
   20.     Member not to practise profession likely to conflict

           Division 3A--Powers and responsibilities of president

   20A.    Arrangement of business

           Division 4--Rules and directions

   21.     Rules of Land Court
   22.     Directions

           Division 5--Sittings, parties, adjournments and loss of presiding member

   23.     Where Land Court may sit
   24.     Appearance
   25.     Adjournments
   26.     Stay of proceedings
   27.     What happens if member dies or is incapacitated

           Division 6--Judicial registrars

   28.     Judicial registrars
   29.     Judicial registrar's power to hear and decide matters
   30.     Independence of judicial registrars
   31.     Rehearing after judicial registrar's decision
   32.     Judicial registrar may exercise certain judicial or quasi-judicial powers

           Division 6A--Indigenous assessors

   32A.    Indigenous assessors
   32B.    Conditions of appointment of indigenous assessor
   32C.    Allocation of indigenous assessor for a proceeding in the cultural heritage division
   32D.    Role of indigenous assessor for a proceeding

           Division 6B--Jurisdiction of Land Court in its cultural heritage division

   32E.    Jurisdiction under Commonwealth Native Title Act
   32F.    Jurisdiction for registered indigenous land use agreements
   32G.    Jurisdiction for negotiated agreements
   32H.    Jurisdiction for particular cultural heritage matters
   32I.    Jurisdiction for contract conditions

           Division 6C--Additional power of Land Court when exercising particular jurisdiction

   32J.    Land Court has power of the Supreme Court for particular purposes

           Division 7--General matters

   33.     Land Court may make declarations
   34.     Costs
   35.     Privileges, protection and immunity
   36.     Preliminary conference

           Division 8--Alternative dispute resolution

   37.     ADR process applies to proceedings started under this part

           Division 9--Conditions of members

   38.     Remuneration
   39.     Leave of absence
   40.     Pension benefits to members
   41.     Calculation of length of service as a member
   42.     Retirement of members
   43.     Removal from office or suspension
   44.     Non-application of ss 38-41 to certain members

           Division 10--Conditions of judicial registrars

   45.     Conditions of appointment
   46.     Retirement of judicial registrars
   47.     Preservation of rights

           Division 11--Other officials and registry

   48.     Registrar, deputy registrars and other officers
   49.     Functions and powers of registrar and deputy registrars
   50.     Delegation by registrar
   51.     Registries
   52.     Court records

           Part 3--Land Appeal Court

           Division 1--Establishment and jurisdiction

   53.     Establishment of Land Appeal Court
   54.     Jurisdiction of Land Appeal Court

           Division 2--General powers

   55.     Land Appeal Court to be guided by equity and good conscience
   56.     Evidence admissible on appeal
   57.     Powers of Land Appeal Court

           Division 3--Constitution for appeals

   58.     Appeals from Land Court
   59.     Appeals from a land tribunal
   60.     Questions of law from a land tribunal
   61.     President decides members for Land Appeal Court
   62.     Nomination of Supreme Court judge to be member of Land Appeal Court
   63.     Land Appeal Court may be constituted in more than 1 place

           Division 4--Appeals, sittings, parties, adjournments, proceedings and loss of presiding members

   64.     Right of appeal to Land Appeal Court
   65.     Notice of appeal
   66.     Where Land Appeal Court may sit
   67.     Appearance
   68.     Adjournments
   69.     Stay of proceedings
   70.     What happens if member of Land Appeal Court dies or is incapacitated
   71.     Decisions of Land Appeal Court

           Division 5--General matters

   72.     Application of certain provisions of pt 2 to Land Appeal Court
   73.     Registrar, deputy registrars and other officers
   73A.    Privileges, protection and immunity

           Part 4--Appeals to Court of Appeal

   74.     Who may appeal to Court of Appeal
   75.     When leave to appeal must be sought and appeal made
   76.     Powers of Court of Appeal

           Part 5--Miscellaneous

   77.     Judicial notice
   77A.    Annual report
   78.     Regulation-making power

           Part 6--Savings and transitional

           Division 1--Savings and transitional provisions for Act No. 1 of 2000

   79.     Continuance of Land Court
   80.     Continuance of Land Appeal Court
   81.     Appointments of members continue
   82.     Entitlements of members continue
   83.     Appointments and entitlements of registrar, deputy registrars and other officers continue
   84.     Land Court orders continue
   85.     Proceedings started under Land Act 1994 continue

           Division 2--Transitional provisions for Land Court and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2007

   86.     LRT president
   87.     LRT deputy president
   88.     LRT mining referee
   89.     Previous LRT deputy president
   90.     Assumption by Land Court of role of warden and Wardens Court under particular Acts
   91.     Land Court to assume jurisdiction for proceedings already before the LRT
           SCHEDULE 2 -- DICTIONARY
           Endnotes