Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A mining tenement may be held by 2 or more persons as joint tenants or as tenants in common.
(2) If, under this Act—
(a) an application is made for, or for approval to assign, a mining tenement for more than 1 proposed holder or assignee; and
(b) the application does not show whether the proposed holders or assignees are to hold as joint tenants or as tenants in common; and
(c) the application is granted;
the chief executive or a mining registrar must record in the appropriate register that the holders or assignees hold the mining tenement as tenants in common.
(3) In this section—
mining tenement includes an interest in a mining tenement.