Queensland Numbered Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2005 No. 8 - SECT 81

After section 133--

insert--

'(1) This section applies to an application that is not a properly made application.

'(2) The Minister or chief executive who would, apart from this section, be required to decide the application, must not accept the application.

'(3) The chief executive must, as soon as practicable after the application is received, give the applicant a written notice--

(a) stating that--

(i) the application is not a properly made application; and

(ii) under this Act, the application can not be accepted; and

(b) identifying the relevant provision of this Act that the application does not comply with.

'(4) The notice must be accompanied by a refund of any application fee paid by the applicant, less an amount prescribed under a regulation for checking whether the application is a properly made application.'.