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MINERAL RESOURCES REGULATION 2013
- Made under the Mineral Resources Act 1989
- As at 1 September 2023
- Reg 170 of 2013
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1 - PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
CHAPTER 2 - MINING TENEMENTS
PART 1 - PROSPECTING PERMITS
4. Conditions—Act, s 25
5. Minimum security for district prospecting permit
PART 2 - MINING CLAIMS
6. Amendment of application after survey of contiguous land
7. Prescribed areas for particular land—Act, s 53
8. Conditions—Act, s 81
8A. Prescribed documents—Act, s 93
PART 3 - EXPLORATION PERMITS AND MINERAL DEVELOPMENT LICENCES
Division 1 - Exploration permits
9. Prescribed areas—Act, ss 127 and 133
10. Numbering of application—Act, s 134
11. Conditions—Act, s 141
Division 2 - Mineral development licences
12. Conditions—Act, s 194
Division 3 - Prescribed information for reports
13. Activity reports—Act, ss 178A and 231AA
14. Expenditure statement for activity report
15. (Repealed)
16. Partial relinquishment reports and partial surrender reports—Act, ss 178B and 231AB
17. Final reports—Act, ss 178C and 231AC
18. Giving reports—Act, ss 141 and 194
PART 4 - MINING LEASES
Division 1 - Mining lease applications
19. Amendment of application after survey of contiguous land
20. Person may obtain copy of mining lease application
20A. Prescribed documents—Act, s 286
Division 2 - Required knowledge
21. Required level of knowledge about resources or reserves of petroleum
Division 3 - Conditions applying to mining leases generally
22. Conditions—Act, s 276
Division 4 - Joint interaction management plans
23. Application of div 4
24. Definitions for div 4
25. Requirement for joint interaction management plan
26. Content of joint interaction management plan
27. Notification of making of joint interaction management plan
28. Review
29. Holder must stop coal mining operations in particular circumstances
Division 5 - Reports for coal or oil shale mining leases
29A. Activity reports for coal or oil shale mining leases—Act, s 315
29B. Relinquishment report for coal or oil shale mining leases—Act, s 315A
29C. Surrender report for coal or oil shale mining leases—Act, s 315B
29D. Notice of intention to drill a CSG well
29E. Notice about completion, alteration or abandonment of CSG well
29F. Daily drilling report
29G. CSG well completion report
29H. CSG well abandonment report
PART 5 - ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS FOR MINING TENEMENTS RELATING TO PARTICULAR RESTRICTED AREAS
30. Application of pt 5
31. Conditions about access shafts
PART 6 - MEASURING AND REPORTING THE TAKING OF ASSOCIATED WATER
31A. Requirements for measuring the taking of associated water—Act, s 334ZP
31B. Requirements for reporting the taking of associated water—Act, s 334ZP
31BA. Requests for further information about calculations
31C. Chief executive may review alternative method
PART 7 - WATER MONITORING BORES
31D. Plugging and abandoning water monitoring bores—Act, s 334ZZS
CHAPTER 3 - ROYALTIES
PART 1 - PRELIMINARY
32. Definitions for ch 3
32A. Mining operation—Act, s 320
PART 2 - ROYALTY RETURNS
33. Application of pt 2
33A. Lodgement with revenue commissioner
34. Form of royalty returns
35. Period to which a royalty return must relate
36. When royalty return must be lodged
37. Revenue commissioner may require royalty return to be lodged on particular day
37A. Fee for failing to lodge royalty return on time
38. No royalty return required in particular circumstances
38A. Returns required for coal seam gas
PART 3 - ROYALTY PAYABLE FOR MINERALS
Division 1 - Royalty payable
39. When royalty payable—yearly return period
39A. When royalty payable to person other than the State—quarterly return period
40. When and how royalty payable—quarterly return period
41. Quarterly payment notice
42. Working out monthly payments for quarterly return period generally
43. Working out monthly payments for quarterly return period in particular circumstances
44. Election to change monthly payments for quarterly return period
45. Revenue commissioner may give notice requiring royalty payable to be worked out under s 42
46. Royalty payable
47. Particular royalties payable on adjustment basis
48. Royalty on stocks of mineral for mining operation that has ended
Division 2 - Exemptions
49. Exemption for coal seam gas
50. Threshold exemption for relevant minerals
Division 3 - Discounts for particular minerals
51. Particular minerals processed in Queensland
PART 4 - WORKING OUT VALUES OF MINERALS
52. Application of pt 4
53. (Repealed)
54. Value of minerals
PART 5 - WORKING OUT GROSS VALUES OF MINERALS
Division 1 - Preliminary
55. Application of pt 5
56. Definitions for pt 5
Division 2 - Gross value of market value minerals
57. Meaning of market value mineral
58. Gross value of market value minerals
Division 3 - Gross value of minerals other than market value minerals
Subdivision 1 - Gross value royalty decisions
59. Gross value of minerals other than market value minerals
60. Application for gross value royalty decision
61. Gross value royalty decision on revenue commissioner’s own initiative
62. Considerations in making gross value royalty decision
63. Gross value royalty decisions
63A. Reference to gross value royalty decision for working out average price of particular minerals
Subdivision 1A - Expired gross value royalty decisions
63B. Use of expired gross value royalty decision
63C. Revenue commissioner must reassess amount of royalty payable if particular expired gross value royalty decisions used
Subdivision 2 - Incorrect gross value royalty decisions
64. Obligation to notify incorrect gross value royalty decision
65. Revenue commissioner may amend gross value royalty decision
66. Notice of amendment
Subdivision 3 - (Repealed)
Subdivision 4 - Reassessment if gross value royalty decision amended
70. Revenue commissioner must reassess amount of particular royalty payable
71. (Repealed)
72. (Repealed)
73. (Repealed)
PART 6 - (Repealed)
PART 7 - CIVIL PENALTY
77. Imposition—Act, s 321A
78. (Repealed)
79. (Repealed)
PART 8 - UNPAID ROYALTY INTEREST
80. (Repealed)
81. Unpaid tax interest on royalty—Taxation Administration Act 2001, s 54
PART 9 - ROYALTY ESTIMATES
82. Application of pt 9
83. Royalty estimate notices
84. Form of and information to be included in royalty estimate
85. Revenue commissioner may request information to support royalty estimate
PART 10 - (Repealed)
CHAPTER 4 - MISCELLANEOUS
PART 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND JUDICIAL FUNCTIONS
86. Amount held by tribunal for compensation trust decision—Act, s 712
PART 2 - CONFIDENTIALITY PERIODS FOR REQUIRED INFORMATION
87. Confidentiality periods for required information for mining tenements
88. Publication of required information
PART 3 - (Repealed)
PART 4 - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND LODGEMENT REQUIREMENTS
92. (Repealed)
93. Plan of survey must be lodged
94. Prescribed way for making applications, giving or lodging documents or making submissions
95. (Repealed)
PART 5 - SMALL SCALE MINING CODE
96. Small scale mining code—Act, 391C
PART 6 - MINING TENEMENTS
97. Particular applications can not be accepted
97A. Prescribed minerals and prescribed thresholds
98. Rental payable
98A. Payment of deferred rental for first rental period by instalments—Act, s 291
98B. Critical minerals—Act, s 291
PART 7 - OTHER MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
99. Time of lodgement to be noted
100. Prescribed hours of business
101. Fees
101A. Rounding of amount expressed in sch 5, pt 8 as number of fee units
PART 8 - REPEAL
102. Repeal
PART 9 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR MINERAL RESOURCES REGULATION 2013
103. Definitions for pt 9
104. Period to which royalty return must relate
105. Minerals sold, disposed of or used before commencement
106. Existing application for gross value royalty decision
107. Existing gross value royalty decisions
108. Minister may do particular things
109. Threshold exemption for relevant minerals
110. References to provisions of repealed regulation
PART 10 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR WATER REFORM AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2014
111. Application of joint interaction management plan provisions
111A. Requirement for joint interaction management plan by particular date
112. Requirement for joint interaction management plan relating to overlapping petroleum lease under 1923 Act
PART 11 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISION FOR REVENUE LEGISLATION (FEES AND OTHER MATTERS) AMENDMENT REGULATION 2019
113. Application of ch 3, pt 5, div 3, sdiv 1A to existing gross value royalty decisions
PART 12 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISION FOR MINERAL RESOURCES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT REGULATION 2019
114. Transitional reporting period
PART 13 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISION FOR ROYALTY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2020
115. Application of former s 64
PART 14 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR MINERAL RESOURCES (REPORTING REQUIREMENTS) AMENDMENT REGULATION 2020
116. Time for lodgement of particular reports
117. Required information lodged before commencement
PART 15 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISION FOR REVENUE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2022
118. Coal sold, disposed of or used before commencement
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 2A
SCHEDULE 3
SCHEDULE 3A
SCHEDULE 4
SCHEDULE 4A
SCHEDULE 5
SCHEDULE 6
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