Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A surrender application may be made for, and the administering authority may approve a surrender of, part of an environmental authority (mining activities).
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), if—
(a) under the Mineral Resources Act, the holder of an environmental authority (mining activities) seeks to surrender (the tenement surrender) all or part of a relevant mining tenement for the environmental authority; and
(b) were the tenement surrender to be made under that Act, some mining tenements, or parts of mining tenements, would remain as relevant mining tenements for the environmental authority;
a surrender application may be made for, and the administering authority may approve a surrender of, the parts of the environmental authority that relate to the tenement surrender.
(3) However, a surrender application mentioned in subsection (2) can not be made if the tenement surrender is a conditional surrender.
(4) Without limiting sections 277 and 278, the administering authority may refuse a surrender application under this section if—
(a) the administering authority considers that it is appropriate to amend the environmental authority to reflect the partial surrender; and
(b) the applicant has not made an amendment application for the part of the environmental authority not sought to be surrendered.