Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 412

412 Offences and recovery of penalties etc.

(1) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Act commits an offence against this Act and, save where a specified penalty is otherwise prescribed, is liable to a penalty of 200 penalty units or to imprisonment for 12 months.

(2) A proceeding for an offence against this Act must be started within—

(a) 1 year after the commission of the offence; or

(b) 1 year after the offence comes to the complainant’s knowledge, but within 2 years after the commission of the offence.

(3) The Taxation Administration Act 2001 , section 45 provides for the payment and recovery of royalty and related amounts payable to the State under this Act.

(4) If a person (the
"payer" ) does not pay an amount of royalty payable by the payer to another person (the
"payee" ) under section 320 (3) (b) , the payee may recover from the payer the unpaid amount as a debt.

(5) All other amounts payable under this Act, other than by way of a penalty (whether for an offence, or for a breach of the conditions of a mining tenement or other authority under this Act, or otherwise) and not recovered by way of utilisation of any security deposit may be recovered as a debt.