Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if the chief executive is satisfied urgent action is needed to protect a part of the State from an adverse economic, environmental or social impact caused, or likely to be caused, by an animal or plant.
(2) The chief executive may, by notice (an emergency pest notice), make a declaration under this section for the animal or plant.
(3) The notice must--
(a) state it is an emergency pest notice; and
(b) state the nature of the emergency; and
(c) state the part of the State in which the notice applies; and
(d) if the animal or plant is not a declared pest--declare it to be a declared pest of a stated category; and
(e) if the animal or plant is a declared pest but the circumstances require its category to be changed--declare its new category and state its former category.
(4) The notice is subordinate legislation.
(5) If, under the notice, a declared pest's category is changed, the declaration of the pest's former category ceases to have effect in the part of the State in which the notice applies while it is in force.
(6) The chief executive must repeal the notice as soon as possible after the chief executive is satisfied the emergency no longer exists.
(7) Unless it is earlier repealed, the notice expires 3 months after it commences.