Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 334ZZS

334ZZS Obligation to decommission

(1) This section applies to a person (the
"owner" ) who holds a mineral development licence, mining lease or water monitoring authority under which a water monitoring bore was constructed, unless the water monitoring bore has, under division 1 , been transferred.

(2) The owner must decommission the bore from use under this Act before—

(a) the mineral development licence, mining lease or water monitoring authority ends; or

(b) the land on which the bore is located is no longer in the area of the licence, lease or authority.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(3) For subsection (1) , the bore is decommissioned from use under this Act only if—

(a) it has been plugged and abandoned in the way prescribed by regulation; and

(b) the decommissioning complies with the Water Act , sections 816 and 817 ; and

(c) the owner gives the chief executive a notice, in the approved form, of the decommissioning of the bore.

(4) Subsection (3) (b) applies only to the extent it is not inconsistent with subsection (3) (a) .