High-rise ban on balcony smoking before A-G
Smoking on high-rise balconies on the Gold Coast is likely to be banned by the state government after a major drive by a group of bodies corporate in the city.
In January, Queensland University of Technology was commissioned by the previous LNP government to analyse the feasibility of allowing body corporate groups to ban smoking on balconies and is now before attorney-general Yvette D’Ath who is being urged to rush legislative changes through parliament.
QUT law professor Bill Duncan, who heads the team of researchers, said giving extra power to bodies corporate was supported the majority of respondents, including the Cancer Council.
“The government now has to consider whether it wants to make a legal change and enhance body corporate powers or allow people to continue to smoke on balconies.”
Cancer Council Queensland spokesman Katie Clift it was time to hand residents the power to ban smoking.
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