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ORDINARY MEETING                                                                      16 MAY 2024


9.3       ADOPTION OF AMENDED CONSOLIDATED VERSION OF SUBORDINATE LOCAL
          LAW NO. 1 (ADMINISTRATION) 2015 TO RECTIFY FORMATTING ERROR


Author              Governance Manager, Diana Stewart
                    Governance | Office of the CEO & Mayor
Index               ECM/Subject/37.04 - Local Law No 01 - Administration
Attachments         1.   Attachment 1: Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Administration) 2015 -
                         (Consolidated Version 16 May 2024)
                    2.   Attachment 2: Section 3(c)(i) – (iv) of Schedule 10
                    3.   Attachment 3: Section 3(c) of Schedule 10_ formatting error


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On 21 October 2021 Council adopted a Consolidated Version of the Subordinate Local Law No. 1
(Administration) 2015 (“SLL1”). A formatting error has been identified in this Consolidated Version
in that section 3(c)(i) – (iv) of Schedule 10, which relates to event directional signs, was
unintentionally omitted (“the formatting error”).

As Council is now aware that the Consolidated Version is not accurate, legal advice recommends
that Council should adopt an amended Consolidated Version of the SLL1 that rectifies the formatting
error.
RECOMMENDATION
That Council adopt, pursuant to section 32 of the Queensland Local Government Act 2009, a
Consolidated Version of Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Administration) 2015 in the form in
Attachment 1 to this Report, which rectifies the unintentional omission of section 3(c)(i) – (iv) of
Schedule 10.


REPORT
1. Background
Section 32 of the Local Government Act 2009 (LGA) provides, among other things, that:
      •   A consolidated version accurately combines a local government’s local law, as it was
          originally made, with all the amendments made to the local law since the local law was
          originally made.
      •   When the local government adopts the consolidated version, the consolidated version is
          taken to be the local law, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

2. Section 3(c)(i) – (iv) of Schedule 10 of SLL1
Section 3(c)(i) – (iv) of Schedule 10 relates to event directional signs. These are any advertising
devices intended to provide directional information about the location of a community event, facility
or feature, for example, temporary events such as a fete, fair, festival or sporting event.

Attachment 2 to this Report is Schedule 10 Section (3)(c)(i) to (iv) of the SLL1 which was
unintentionally omitted from the Consolidated Version of the SLL1.

3. Adopted Consolidated Versions of the SLL1 in 2020 and 2021
      •   On 19 December 2019 Council made the Administration and Other Subordinate Local Law
          (Amendment) Subordinate Local Law (No 1) 2019 which included amendments to the SLL1



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