Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 251

251 Priority of mining lease applications

(1) Applications made under this Act for the grant of mining leases for the same land must be considered and decided according to the day on which they are lodged.

(2) If 2 or more applications are lodged on the same day—

(a) they take the priority the Minister decides, after considering the relative merits of each application; and

(b) the chief executive must give each applicant a written notice stating there is competition for priority between the applicant’s application and another application, or other applications, lodged on the same day as the day on which the applicant’s application was lodged.