Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) The chief executive may keep, in the way the chief executive considers appropriate, a manual (however called) about resource authority administration practice to guide and inform persons dealing with the department.
(2) The manual may include—
(a) directions about—
(i) what information, documents or instruments (material) a person must or may give in response to a requirement or permission under this Act or a Resource Act; and
(ii) how or when the material must or may be given; and
(iii) the format of the material; and
(b) practices to ensure there is consistency and efficiency in resource authority administration processes; and
(c) guidelines about ways to define the boundary of the area of a mining tenement or proposed mining tenement under the Mineral Resources Act.
(3) If—
(a) a person is required or permitted to give the Minister or the chief executive (the official) information for a particular purpose relating to this Act or a Resource Act; and
(b) the person gives the information—
(i) as required or permitted under the manual; or
(ii) as would be required or permitted to be given under a regulation if the information were a document;
the person is taken to have given the official the information for the purpose.
(4) The chief executive must—
(a) keep a copy of the manual and a record (however called) of each part of the manual, including the dates when each part was published or superseded; and
(b) make the manual and the record available to the public in the way the chief executive considers appropriate.
(5) Without limiting subsection (4), the chief executive must ensure an up-to-date copy of the manual and the record are available to be read free of charge—
(a) on the department's website; and
(b) if information relates to a particular application—at the department's office where the application was made.