Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 386U

386U Requirement to remove physical monuments

(1) Subsection (2) applies if—

(a) for the purpose of applying for the grant of a mining tenement (the
"intended application" ), a person installed 1 or more physical monuments to define the boundary of the area of the proposed tenement; and

(b) either—

(i) the intended application is not made within 5 business days after the last of the physical monuments is installed; or

(ii) the intended application is refused, rejected, withdrawn or abandoned.

(2) The person must remove all of the physical monuments.

(3) Subsection (4) applies if—

(a) a physical monument defines part of the boundary of the area of a mining tenement; and

(b) the boundary changes; and

(c) after the change, the physical monument no longer defines any of the boundary.

(4) The holder of the mining tenement must remove the physical monument.

(5) Subsections (2) and (4) do not apply to a physical monument if there is a survey mark on the monument.