Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 334ZQ

334ZQ Water monitoring activities

(1) The holder of the mineral development licence or mining lease may carry out any of the following activities in the area of the licence or lease to comply with its underground water obligations for the licence or lease—

(a) gathering information about, or undertaking an assessment of, a water bore;

(b) monitoring effects of the exercise of the holder’s underground water rights for the licence or lease;

(c) constructing or plugging and abandoning a water monitoring bore;

(d) gathering information for preparing an underground water impact report or final report under the Water Act , chapter 3 ;

(e) carrying out any other activity necessary to comply with the holder’s underground water obligations.

(2) If the holder of the mineral development licence or mining lease is also the holder of an exploration permit, the holder may carry out any of the activities mentioned in subsection (1) in the area of the exploration permit to comply with its underground water obligations for the licence or lease.

(3) The constructing or plugging and abandoning of a water monitoring bore must be carried out by an individual licensed under the Water Act , chapter 8 , part 2B to carry out the activity.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(4) An activity mentioned in subsection (1) is a
"water monitoring activity" .