Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 386S

386S Boundary definition notice

(1) This section applies if a provision about an application for the grant of a mining tenement requires the application to define the boundary of the area of the proposed tenement.

(2) The chief executive may, by notice, make directions about the way in which the boundary of the proposed mining tenement must be defined.

(3) The notice may apply to—

(a) applications of the type stated in the notice; or

(b) applications relating to a stated area.

(4) Without limiting subsection (2) , the notice may, but need not, direct that the boundary be defined by reference to 1 or more physical monuments.

(5) The chief executive must publish the notice in at least 1 of the following ways—

(a) in the gazette;

(b) on the department’s website;

(c) another way the chief executive considers appropriate.

(6) An applicant for the grant of a mining tenement must bear any costs incurred in complying with the notice.