Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered ActsSection 63—
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'(1) Applications made under this Act for the grant of mining claims for the same land must be considered and decided according to the day on which they are lodged.
'(2) If the applications were lodged on the same day—
(a) they take the priority the mining registrar decides, after considering the relative merits of each application; and
(b) the mining registrar must give each applicant a written notice stating there is competition for priority between the applicant's application and another application or other applications lodged on the same day as the day on which the applicant's application was lodged.'.