Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive may give the owner of a place an order (an interim protection order) in relation to the place if--
(a) there is a current application for the place; and
(b) the chief executive is satisfied on the evidence available to the chief executive when the order is given that--
(i) the place is likely to satisfy 1 or more of the cultural heritage criteria; and
(ii) the order is necessary to conserve the cultural heritage significance of the place because of development that may be carried out on the place.
(2) The chief executive may give a copy of the order to any person the chief executive considers is proposing to carry out development on the place.
(3) In this section--
current application, for a place, means an application--
(a) to have the place entered in the Queensland heritage register as a State heritage place; and
(b) in relation to which the council has not made a decision, and is not taken to have made a decision, under section 53 or 55.