Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive or the chief executive officer of the local government for the area may give written notice (an emergency quarantine notice) to a landowner in the area.
(2) The notice must state the following--
(a) it is an emergency quarantine notice;
(b) details of the land to which it relates;
(c) the nature of the emergency;
(d) an authorised person may, to ensure or monitor compliance with the notice and without further notice, enter the land at any reasonable time and exercise an authorised person's powers under chapter 7, part 3.
(3) The notice may require the owner to take reasonable action to manage, control or eradicate a class 1 or class 2 pest on the owner's land.
(4) Without limiting subsection (3), the notice may--
(a) regulate the taking or removal of fodder, grain, gravel, soil, stock, machinery, vehicles or any other thing onto or from the land; or
(b) regulate what a person may, or may not, do on the land; or
(c) regulate how anything infected with or containing the pest must be treated or dealt with when found by an authorised person or anyone else; or
(d) require the owner to destroy anything infected with or containing, or suspected of being infected with or containing, the pest; or
(e) require the owner to test or treat anything on the land.
(5) The notice must state the powers of an authorised person for this section.
(6) In addition to an authorised person's powers under chapter 7, part 3, an authorised person may give reasonable directions to ensure the proper management, control or eradication of the pest on the land.
(7) The chief executive or local government must cancel the notice as soon as possible after the chief executive or chief executive officer of the local government is satisfied the emergency no longer exists.
(8) Unless it is sooner repealed, the notice expires 3 months after it is given to the owner.
(9) Subsection (1) does not allow the chief executive officer of the local government to give an emergency quarantine notice in relation to State land in the area.
(10) In this section--
regulate includes prohibit.