Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The administering authority must, before it takes any of the following steps, seek advice from the chief executive of the MRA department—
(a) make a decision to refuse a transfer application, unless the chief executive of the MRA department has notified the administering authority that a relevant mining tenement will not be assigned, under the Mineral Resources Act, to the transferee under the transfer application;
(b) make a decision to refuse a surrender application;
(c) make another decision under this part about a non-code compliant application or a non-code compliant authority for a level 1 mining project, to which decision the applicant or authority holder has not agreed to in writing;
(e) give a draft environmental authority for an environmental authority (mining lease) application if it is a non-standard application.
(2) The advice may be sought in the way the administering authority considers appropriate.
(3) The advice sought may be given only within the time required under this chapter for the administering authority to take the step.
(4) A contravention of this section does not invalidate the decision or the environmental authority (mining activities) to which it relates.