Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 746

746 Clarification provision for coal seam gas

(1) This section applies to a coal mining lease, other than a mineral hydrocarbon mining lease, that was in force during the period in which the Petroleum Act 1923, former section 150(4), was in force.

(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that despite the provisions of the Petroleum Act 1923, section 150(4), the entitlement under section 235 (as it was in force during that period) of the lease holder is taken, during the period, to have included the right to extract and produce, or mine, coal seam gas.

(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (2) does not affect the application of part 7AA, division 8, subdivision 1 in relation to the lease.

(4) The right under subsection (2) is subject to section 748.