Queensland Consolidated Acts

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ACT 2010 - SECT 35

35 Who may apply

(1) Any eligible person may apply for a geothermal permit for land other than—

(a) land in a restricted area; or

(b) excluded land; or

(c) land in an existing geothermal tenure’s area; or

(d) land that has been in a geothermal tenure’s area and less than 2 months has passed since the end of the month in which the land ceased to be in—

(i) the geothermal tenure; or

(ii) if the geothermal tenure has ended—the former geothermal tenure’s area; or

(e) land that has been the subject of an earlier geothermal tenure application that has been refused or withdrawn and less than 2 months has passed since the end of the month in which the earlier geothermal tenure application was refused or withdrawn.

(2) Also, a geothermal permit application (the
"relevant application" ) may be made for land the subject of an existing application only if—

(a) the land is in a released area and the relevant application is made during the application period for the area; or

(b) the existing application was made on the same day as the relevant application.

(3) Despite subsection (1) , a geothermal permit application can not be made for geothermal exploration—

(a) for exempt heat pump production; or

(b) to evaluate the feasibility of exempt heat pump production.

(4) In this section—

"existing application" means another geothermal permit application made but not decided.