Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 758

758 Obligation to lodge proposed development plan

(1) It is a condition of the coal or oil shale mining lease that its holder must, within the relevant period, lodge at the following office a proposed initial development plan for the lease—

(a) the office of the department for lodging proposed development plans, as stated in a gazette notice by the chief executive;

(b) if no office is gazetted under paragraph (a)—the office of the chief executive.

(2) The proposed plan must—

(a) comply with the initial development plan requirements; and

Note—

See also section 318ED.

(b) be accompanied by the fee prescribed under a regulation.

(3) Section 318DP and part 7AA, division 9, subdivision 3, apply for the proposed plan as if a reference in sections 318DZ to 318EA to a proposed mining lease were a reference to the coal or oil shale mining lease.

(4) In this section—

"relevant period" means—

(a) if, at the commencement, the lease has underground coal mining operations or the holder is carrying out activities to manage or mine coal seam gas—6 months after the commencement; or

(b) otherwise—6 months after the first anniversary of the grant of the lease that happens after the commencement.