Queensland Numbered Acts

MINES LEGISLATION (STREAMLINING) AMENDMENT ACT 2012 No. 20 - SECT 127

Chapter 5, part 12, division 3, subdivision 1—

insert—

'(1) This section applies if—

(a) immediately before the commencement of this section, an authority to prospect or petroleum lease is in effect; and

(b) an environmental authority for the authority to prospect or lease has been issued; and

(c) after the commencement, the holder of the authority to prospect or lease carries out an incidental activity under the P&G Act in the area of the authority or lease that is reasonably necessary for, or incidental to, an authorised activity for another authority to prospect or petroleum lease; and

(d) the holder must give the administering authority an annual return under section 308(3)(a) for the environmental authority.

'(2) The annual return for the environmental authority must include—

(a) details of the incidental activity carried out in the area of the authority to prospect or lease, including how the activity will be carried out; and

(b) details of the environmental risks of the activity.

'(3) In this section—

authorised activity, for an authority to prospect or petroleum lease, see the P&G Act, section 22.

authority to prospect means an authority to prospect under the P&G Act.'.