Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 318DO

318DO Requirement for coordination arrangement to transfer or sublet mining lease in area of petroleum lease

(1) This section applies if land in the area of a coal mining lease or an oil shale mining lease is also in the area of a petroleum lease.

(2) The chief executive must not, under the Common Provisions Act , register a transfer or sublease of the mining lease unless the proposed transferee or sublessee and the petroleum lease holder are—

(a) the same entity; or

(b) parties to a coordination arrangement about—

(i) coal or oil shale mining and any incidental coal seam gas under the mining lease; and

(ii) petroleum production under the petroleum lease.

Note—

For matters about coordination arrangements, see the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act , chapter 2 , part 8 .