Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 878

878 Existing applications for grant or renewal of mining lease for prescribed mineral

(1) This section applies in relation to an application for the grant of a mining lease for a prescribed mineral that—

(a) was made, but not decided, before the commencement; and

(b) on the commencement, is an application to which section 246 applies.

(2) This section also applies in relation to an application for the renewal of a mining lease for a prescribed mineral that—

(a) was made, but not decided, before the commencement; and

(b) on the commencement, is an application to which section 286AA applies.

(3) Chapter 6, part 1, as in force before the commencement, applies for deciding the application and granting the proposed mining lease, or renewed lease, as if the Mineral and Energy Resources and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2020 had not been enacted.