Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The administering authority must, within the required period, consider the application and decide whether—
(a) to grant or refuse it; and
(b) to impose any additional conditions.
(2) In making the decisions, the authority must—
(a) comply with any relevant regulatory requirement; and
(b) subject to paragraph (a), consider each of the following—
(i) the application documents for the application;
(ii) the standard criteria;
(iii) to the extent the application relates to mining activities in a wild river area—the wild river declaration for the area;
(iv) the applicant's ability to comply with the relevant standard environmental conditions;
(v) any suitability report obtained for the application;
(vi) the status of any application under the Mineral Resources Act for each relevant mining tenement.
(3) In this section—
required period means—
(a) if no additional condition has been requested within 5 business days after the administering authority receives the application—within the 5 business days; or
(b) if additional conditions have been requested within 5 business days after the administering authority receives the application—within the 10 business days after the making of the last request for an additional condition.