The council hoped to have its district freedom camping bylaw fully operational before an expected influx of freedom campers around the World Cup, but must now wait for the Bill to enforce more prohibitive fines.
The Bill was introduced to Parliament last month and, as a result, the district's freedom camping bylaw, which came into effect last month, can be enforced only with council's previous $40 fines.
However, council community services general manager Paul Wilson said this was not an issue, as the Government was "looking to have it [the Bill] in place" before the World Cup starts.
" They were going to make a change to the Local Government Act, but in the end elected to create the new Freedom Camping Bill," Mr Wilson said.
"Effectively, the end is the same, but the method has changed."
QLDC's traffic and parking bylaw infringement fines still apply in the meantime and, because that bylaw was not rescinded but overlaps with the new bylaw, the council is still able to enforce it with the new conditions.
Infringement fines of $40 under the traffic and parking bylaw are set to rise to $200 once the Freedom Camping Bill is passed, and there will also be fines of up to $10,000 for illegally discharging a campervan's sewage.
QLDC's bylaw will be enforced in the district, but not until the Government passes the new laws.
Under the Queenstown Lakes District bylaw, freedom campers with tents or vehicles which are not equipped with a toilet can stay overnight only at licensed camping grounds or in designated camping areas.
Those in self-contained vehicles still have to camp in camping grounds or designated camping areas while inside new "no freedom camping zones", but can camp anywhere outside the zones.
The banned areas include sections of shoreline on Lakes Hawea, Wanaka and Wakatipu and tracts of land around the urban areas of Lake Hawea, Wanaka, Albert Town, Luggate, Cardrona, Queenstown, Arrowtown, Glenorchy and Kingston.
