Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) If the Minister is deciding or is required to decide an application under this Act, the Minister may by notice require the applicant to do all or any of the following within a stated reasonable period--
(a) complete or correct the application if it appears to the Minister to be incorrect, incomplete or defective;
(b) give the Minister additional information about, or relevant to, the application;
Example--
The application is for a geothermal tenure. The Minister may require a document, prepared by an appropriately qualified person, independently verifying geological or predictive migration data given in the proposed work program or development plan for the tenure.
(c) give the Minister an independent report by an appropriately qualified person or a statutory declaration verifying all or any of the following--
(i) any information included in the application;
(ii) any additional information required under paragraph (b);
(iii) if the application is for a geothermal tenure--that the applicant meets the capability criteria.
(2) For subsection (1)(b), if the application is for a geothermal tenure, a required document may include a survey or resurvey of the area of the proposed tenure carried out by a person who is a cadastral surveyor under the Surveyors Act 2003.
(3) For subsection (1)(c), the notice may require--
(a) the statutory declaration to be made by an appropriately qualified independent person or by the applicant; and
(b) if the applicant is a corporation--to be made for the applicant by an executive officer of the applicant.
(4) The applicant must bear any costs incurred in complying with the notice.
(5) The Minister may extend the period for complying with the notice.
(6) Without limiting section 364(1) or 366, the Minister may refuse to decide the application until the request is complied with.
(7) In this section--
information includes a document.