Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered ActsAfter section 416A--
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'(1) The Minister may, in the way the Minister considers appropriate, publish directions about the giving of information, including the giving of additional information, to the Minister or the chief executive for the purposes of this Act.
'(2) A direction published under subsection (1) must state a period, that is not less than 20 business days, within which the information must be given.
'(3) Without limiting subsection (1), the directions may provide for how the information must be given if this Act does not already so provide.
Examples of how information may be required to be given--
by an approved form or a notice
by progressive reporting under a development plan
by a volumetric plan of survey
by a geological survey
by a statement, supporting an application for a mining tenement, about the financial resources or technical advice available to the applicant or the applicant's previous compliance with a condition or provision of a mining tenement
'(4) If--
(a) a person is required or permitted to give the Minister, the chief executive or a mining registrar (the official) information for a particular purpose relating to this Act; and
(b) this Act does not provide for how the information may or must be given to the official for the purpose; and
(c) the person gives the official the information in the way required or permitted under the directions;
the person is taken to have given the official the information for the purpose.
'(5) Unless a direction states a particular office of the department where the information must be given, the information must be given at the office of the chief executive.
'(6) The chief executive must--
(a) keep--
(i) a copy of each direction; and
(ii) a record (by whatever name called) of each direction, including the dates when each direction was published and superseded; and
(b) make each direction and the record available to the public in the way the chief executive considers appropriate.
'(7) Without limiting subsection (6), the chief executive must ensure an up-to-date copy of each direction and the record is available to be read free of charge at each office of the department and on the department's website.'.