Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A local government's jurisdiction of local government includes jurisdiction to make local laws with respect to any matter--
(a) required or permitted to be prescribed under this or another Act; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed or exercised for carrying out or giving effect to its local laws.
(2) To avoid any doubt, a local law may be made--
(a) making it an offence to contravene a local law; and
(b) fixing a penalty for an offence against a local law (including different penalties for successive offences against a local law) of not more than 850 penalty units.