Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) This section, as well as section 297, applies if the Minister decides to grant the renewal and the geothermal tenure is a geothermal permit.
(2) Subject to this section and section 297, section 40 applies to the renewed geothermal permit as if it were a geothermal permit decided to be granted under chapter 2.
(3) The renewed geothermal permit's term can not be--
(a) more than 5 years; or
(b) for a term ending more than 15 years after the permit originally took effect.
(4) However, if any part of the renewed geothermal permit's area is a potential geothermal commercial area, its term for that part may be for a longer period that--
(a) ends no later than when the declaration of the potential geothermal commercial area ends; and
(b) is no more than the last term of the geothermal permit being renewed.
(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (4)(b) does not prevent a renewal of the renewed geothermal tenure.