Public Notice - Making Amending Local Laws

Published on 12 December 2025

Making Amending Local Laws

CHARTERS TOWERS REGIONAL COUNCIL

NOTICE OF MAKING AMENDING LOCAL LAWS

Local Government Act 2009, section 29B(1)(b), (4)

Making of Local Laws

On 10 December 2025, Charters Towers Regional Council (Council) resolved to make:

  1. Amending Local Law No. 1 (Miscellaneous Local Laws) 2025 (the Amending Local Law); and
  2. Amending Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Miscellaneous Subordinate Local Laws) 2025 (the Amending Subordinate Local Law),

(collectively, the New Amending Local Laws).

Existing Local Laws and Subordinate Local Laws Amended

The Amending Local Law amends the following existing Local Laws:

  1. Local Law No. 1 (Administration) 2011;
  2. Local Law No. 2 (Animal Management) 2011;
  3. Local Law No. 3 (Community and Environmental Management) 2011;
  4. Local Law No. 4 (Local Government Controlled Areas, Facilities and Roads) 2011; and
  5. Local Law No. 8 (Waste Management) 2018.

The Amending Subordinate Local Law amends the following existing Subordinate Local Laws:

  1. Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Administration) 2021;
  2. Subordinate Local Law No. 2 (Animal Management) 2011;
  3. Subordinate Local Law No. 3 (Community and Environmental Management) 2011; and
  4. Subordinate Local Law No. 4 (Local Government Controlled Areas, Facilities and Roads) 2011.

Commencement

The New Amending Local Laws will commence on 12 December 2025, being the date the Notice was published in the Queensland Government Gazette.

Purpose and General Effect

The purpose and general effect of the New Amending Local Laws are to amend:

  1. Local Law No. 1 (Administration) 2011 to:
    • enable Council to consider a request for stay of the operation of an original decision for an internal review application; and
    • make changes to the definitions, including clarifying amendments and amendments to outdated legislative and other references.
  2. Local Law No. 2 (Animal Management) 2011 to:
    • clarify the requirements for maintaining a proper enclosure to prevent animals from wandering and the offence for a person whose animal is wandering at large;
    • provide a discretion for an authorised person to determine that an animal that has been wandering at large, or seized for non-compliance with the local law on more than 3 occasions in a 12 month period can be rehomed under division 5 if considered appropriate, rather than a destruction order being issued; and
    • make changes to the definitions, including clarifying amendments and amendments to outdated legislative and other references.
  3. Local Law No. 3 (Community and Environmental Management) 2011 to:
    • enable the local government to declare an animal or plant of a specified species to be a declared local pest by resolution of the local government in addition to declaring local pests under the subordinate local law and update the advertising requirements to include Council’s website, and in other ways, when required to make an emergency declaration; and
    • make changes to the definitions, including clarifying amendments and amendments to outdated legislative and other references.
  4. Local Law No. 4 (Local Government Controlled Areas, Facilities and Roads) 2011 to:
    • amend the offence provision of undertaking a prohibited or restricted activity to enable an authorised person to consider if the person has a reasonable excuse;
    • enable an authorised person, instead of the local government, to require an owner of land adjoining a road to fence the land;
    • enable the local government to recover all costs associated with undertaking the work required by the owner or occupier adjoining or adjacent to a road, in the same way as the local government recovers overdue rates, including interest; and
    • make changes to outdated legislative and other references.
  5. Subordinate Local Law No. 8 (Waste Management) 2018 to:
    • make amendments to outdated legislative and other references

The purpose and general effect of the Amending Subordinate Local Law is to amend:

  1. Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Administration) 2021 to:
    • make minor changes to Schedule 6 to refine the list of public place activities that are prescribed activities, including identifying ‘busking’ as a public place activity;
    • make changes to Schedule 10 to improve consistency and clarify the application of certain advertising device regulations which will apply only to buildings of sites used for non-residential purposes; and
    • clarify, for the prescribed activity of a public place activity under Schedule 22, the circumstances where an approval is not required, the information that applicants must provide when applying for an approval, refining the criteria to be considered when assessing an application and the conditions that will apply to approvals.
  2. Subordinate Local Law No. 2 (Animal Management) 2011 to:
    • make changes to the prohibition of keeping cats and dogs under Schedule 1 by reference to specific areas and numbers to reflect changing residential development requirements and to enhance regulation;
    • make changes to the threshold of the number of dogs and cats kept in specific areas that require approval from Council as a prescribed activity under Schedule 2, including a new requirement to obtain an approval in relation to the keeping of pigs based on number and property size.
    • clarify the application of the minimum standards for keeping particular animals under Schedule 5 and the minimum general standards for keeping animals under Schedule 4 and to ensure there is no inconsistency with the standards under the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (if applicable);
    • make minor changes to the areas under Schedules 6 and 7 for accuracy and consistency in relation to animal prohibited areas and dog off-leash areas;
    • clarify the circumstances where the conditions for offering cats for sale applies; and
    • make changes to update the mapping and definitions for ‘city area’ and ‘designated town area’ to clarify the specific areas in which the prohibition of animals and approvals are required.
  3. Subordinate Local Law No. 3 (Community and Environmental Management) 2011 to:
    • make changes to outdated legislative references, codes of practice, and definitions;
    • clarify the circumstances where fires are prohibited within the local government area, including the insertion of new definitions, to assist in interpretation and regulation; and
    • include a new prescribed community safety hazard for vegetation, materials or soil placed near waterways or areas likely to cause flooding on local government controlled areas or roads.
  4. Subordinate Local Law No. 4 (Local Government Controlled Areas, Facilities and Roads) 2011 to:
    • clarify that the areas specified in Schedule 6 does not limit the operation of matters regulated under the subordinate local law;
    • update the areas identified as local government controlled areas; and
    • to make changes to the definitions to update outdated legislative references.

Anti-competitive provisions

The New Amending Local Laws contain an anti-competitive provision.

Inspection and Purchase

A copy of the New Amending Local Laws, and the consolidated versions of the Local Laws and Subordinate Local Laws amended by the New Amending Local Laws, may be inspected and purchased at Council’s public office at 12 Mosman Street, Charters Towers, and is available for download from Council’s website.

A copy of the New Amending Local Laws may also be viewed by the public the website of the Department of Local Government, Water and Volunteers.

 

Karina Ewer - MBA, MCDR, MAHRI, GAICD

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
CHARTERS TOWERS REGIONAL COUNCIL

 

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