Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The holder of mining leases for the mining of minerals in respect of contiguous land may lodge an application in writing with the mining registrar for the mining district in which the major portion of the area of the mining leases is situated for the grant of a mining lease consolidating those mining leases.
(2) The application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(3) If the mining registrar is not satisfied the land is adjoining, the holder may apply to the Land Court for an order declaring the land to be adjoining land for this section.
(4) The Governor in Council may cancel the mining leases referred to in an application lodged pursuant to subsection (1) and grant the mining lease applied for, subject to such conditions as may be imposed by or under this Act.
(5) The relevant instruments of lease shall be cancelled or, as the case may be, issued to evidence the cancellation and grant of the mining leases.
(6) If, within the proposed area of the consolidated mining lease, there is an area not included in 1 of the leases to be consolidated, the Governor in Council may include the area in the consolidated mining lease.
(7) A consolidated mining lease may be granted only if the Minister is satisfied arrangements for compensation, the deposit of security and the proposed conditions of the mining lease are adequate.
(8) The provisions of sections 232, 238, 240, 241, 243, 245, 251 to 254, 260, 265, 266, 268, 269, 271, 272, 274 and 275 and such other provisions as the Governor in Council approves do not apply in respect of an application for and grant of a mining lease under this section.
(9) The provisions of section 312(3) do not apply in respect of a mining lease terminated for the purposes of the grant of a mining lease under this section.
(10) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 277(11), the security that pursuant to that section would have been refunded to the holder of the cancelled mining leases or as the holder directs may, at the request of the applicant, be retained by the Minister towards security required under section 277(1) to be deposited by the holder of the new mining lease issued under subsection (4).
(11) The mining registrar must, within 5 business days after receiving notice of the grant under this section of a consolidated mining lease, give the EPA administering authority written notice of the grant.