Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 71

71 Objection to application for grant of mining claim

(1) An owner of relevant land or the relevant local government may, on or before the last objection day ends, lodge a written objection in the approved form to an application for a mining claim.

(2) An owner of land who attends a conference about an application for a mining claim may, even though the time for objecting to the application has ended, lodge an objection to the application within 5 business days after—

(a) the day the conference ends; or

(b) if the applicant did not attend the conference—the day the owner attended the conference.

(3) An objection referred to in subsection (1) or (2) shall state the grounds of objection and the facts and circumstances relied on by the objector in support of those grounds.

(4) Each objector to an application for the grant of a mining claim shall serve upon the applicant on or before the last date that the objector may lodge an objection to that application a copy of the objection lodged by the objector.

(5) In this section—

"relevant land" means the land the subject of the proposed mining claim or any other land necessary for access to that land.