Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Upon being satisfied that the applicant for the grant of a mining lease is eligible to apply for the mining lease and that the applicant has complied with the requirements of this Act with respect to that application the mining registrar shall prepare a certificate of application for a mining lease in the approved form.
(2) The mining registrar must endorse on the certificate of application—
(a) the number of the proposed mining lease; and
(b) the date and time the application was lodged.
(3) The person lodging the application must sign the certificate.
(4) The applicant for the proposed mining lease must, within the relevant period, give each owner of the land the subject of the proposed mining lease or any other land necessary for access to that land, a copy of—
(a) the certificate; and
(b) the application for the mining lease, other than any part of it that states the applicant's financial and technical resources.
(5) The mining registrar may, by written notice given to the applicant, decide a way for the applicant to give the documents mentioned in subsection (4) by publishing the documents, or a notice about the documents, in a stated way.
(6) If the applicant publishes the documents or a notice about the documents in the stated way, the applicant is taken to have complied with subsection (4).
(7) In this section—
relevant period means the later of the following periods to end—
(a) 5 business days after the signing of the certificate;
(b) if the mining registrar at any time decides a longer period—the longer period.