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    Queensland Coasts Declaratory Act 1985

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    This document is an Act passed by the Queensland parliament to clarify any doubts about ownership of certain islands off the Queensland coast. It declares that when the islands were annexed to Queensland, they became Crown lands owned by the state. It also validates all past and future dealings with the islands under Queensland's Crown lands legislation. The Act aims to remove any claims for compensation regarding interests in the islands prior to their annexation.

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    This document is an Act passed by the Queensland parliament to clarify any doubts about ownership of certain islands off the Queensland coast. It declares that when the islands were annexed to Queensland, they became Crown lands owned by the state. It also validates all past and future dealings with the islands under Queensland's Crown lands legislation. The Act aims to remove any claims for compensation regarding interests in the islands prior to their annexation.

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    This document is an Act passed by the Queensland parliament to clarify any doubts about ownership of certain islands off the Queensland coast. It declares that when the islands were annexed to Queensland, they became Crown lands owned by the state. It also validates all past and future dealings with the islands under Queensland's Crown lands legislation. The Act aims to remove any claims for compensation regarding interests in the islands prior to their annexation.

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    ANNO TRICESIMO QUARTO

    ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE

    No. 27 of 1985
    An Act to allay any doubts that may exist concerning certain
    islands forming part of Queensland
    [ASSENTED TO 15TH APRIL, 1985]

    Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act 1985 , No. 27

    321

    BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with


    the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in
    Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Queensland Coast
    Islands Declaratory Act 1985.
    2. Interpretation . In this Act, except where a contrary intention
    appears"Constitution Act" means the Constitution Act of 1867 and that
    Act as amended from time to time;
    "Crown lands legislation" means legislation of Queensland relating
    to the alienation, sale, letting, disposal and occupation of
    lands of the Crown within Queensland;
    "disposal" means an exercise of a power conferred by Crown
    lands legislation whether by way of alienation, sale, leasing,
    letting, licensing, reservation and setting apart, grant in trust
    or in any other way whatsoever;
    "the islands" means the islands referred to in the schedule to
    The Queensland Coast Islands Act of 1879.
    3. Effect of annexation of islands to Queensland. For the purpose
    of removing any doubt that may exist as to the application to the
    islands of certain legislation upon their becoming part of Queensland,
    it is hereby declared that upon the islands being annexed to and becoming
    part of Queensland and subject to the laws in force in Queensland(a) the islands were vested in the Crown in right of Queensland
    freed from all other rights, interests and claims of any kind
    whatsoever and became waste lands of the Crown in
    Queensland for the purposes of sections 30 and 40 of the
    Constitution Act;
    (b) the laws to which the islands became subject included the
    Crown lands legislation then and from time to time in force;
    (c) the islands could thereafter be dealt with as Crown lands
    for the purposes of Crown lands legislation then and from
    time to time in force in Queensland.
    4. Disposals after annexation . Every disposal of the islands or part
    thereof purporting to be in pursuance of Crown lands legislation after
    the islands were annexed to and became part of Queensland shall be
    taken to have been validly made and to have had effect in law according
    to its tenor.
    5. Claims to compensation . No compensation was or is payable to
    any person(a) by reason of the annexation of the islands to Queensland;
    (b) in respect of any right, interest or claim alleged to have
    existed prior to the annexation of the islands to Queensland

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    Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act 1985, No. 27


    or in respect of any right, interest or claim alleged to derive
    from such a right, interest or claim;
    or
    (c) by reason of any provision of this Act.

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