Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 880

880 Mining lease granted or renewed after transitional period on existing application

(1) This section applies if, after the end of the transitional period, a mining lease is granted or renewed on an application to which section 878 applies.

(2) The mining lease is taken to—

(a) be a prescribed mineral mining lease under section 317C(1)(b); and

(b) have started to be a prescribed mineral mining lease under section 317C(2), when it is granted or renewed.

(3) In this section—

"transitional period" means the period of 3 years that starts on the commencement.