Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 4

4 Effect of change of baseline

(1) If—

(a) an offshore area is in the area of an exploration permit, mineral development licence or mining lease (the
"mining tenement" ); and

(b) there is a change to the inner limit of the coastal waters of the State as defined in the Offshore Minerals Act 1998 , section 16 (1) and (2) ; and

(c) as a result of the change, the offshore area comes within those coastal waters;

this Act applies, while the mining tenement or any successor mining tenement remains in force, as if the area were still within the offshore area.

(2) If—

(a) a mining lease takes effect immediately after an exploration permit expires; and

(b) the holder of the mining lease immediately after it takes effect was the holder of the exploration permit immediately before it expired;

the mining lease is a successor mining tenement to the exploration permit for subsection (1) .

(3) If—

(a) a mineral development licence takes effect immediately after an exploration permit expires; and

(b) the holder of the mineral development licence immediately after it takes effect was the holder of the exploration permit immediately before it expired;

the mineral development licence is a successor mining tenement to the exploration permit for subsection (1) .

(4) If—

(a) a mining lease takes effect immediately after a mineral development licence expires; and

(b) the mineral development licence took effect immediately after an exploration permit expired; and

(c) the holder of the mining lease immediately after it takes effect was the holder of the mineral development licence immediately before it expired; and

(d) the holder of the mineral development licence immediately after it took effect was the holder of the exploration permit immediately before it expired;

the mining lease is a successor mining tenement to the exploration permit and the mineral development licence for subsection (1) .

(5) In this section—

"offshore area" means an area of the sea bed and subsoil to which the Act applies.