Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The power conferred on the council by the City of Brisbane Act 1924 to make local laws includes power to make local laws--
(a) prohibiting or regulating any display, amusement or other activity whatsoever in a mall or in the vicinity of a mall;
(b) providing for fixing, varying and revoking, by resolution of the council, fees and charges--
(i) for use of a mall or any part of a mall for any display, amusement or other activity whatsoever;
(ii) for any service provided by the council in or in connection with a mall;
(c) providing for the collection and recovery of fees and charges referred to in paragraph (b);
(d) prohibiting or regulating any matter or thing connected with the external appearance or character of any building or other structure in or abutting a mall.
(1A) However, in relation to the Chinatown Mall such powers of prohibition and regulation shall be exercised with a view to promoting an oriental design and theme of that mall.
(2) A local law made by the council in relation to any matter referred to in subsection (1) shall be of force and effect and shall be complied with notwithstanding any provision of the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 and to the extent that a provision of the local law is inconsistent with a provision of that Act or of any other law that prohibits or regulates any activity on a road the provision of the local law shall prevail and the provision of that Act or that other law shall be inoperative.
(3) A local law of a description referred to in subsection (1) may be made at any time after the commencement of this Act and before the appointed day but any local law so made shall not take effect until the appointed day at the earliest.
(4) A local law of a description referred to in subsection (1) in force immediately before the relevant nominated day shall also on and from that nominated day have force and effect in relation to the mall extension area to which that nominated day relates.