Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 318AA

(1) The main purposes of this part are achieved by—

(a) ensuring commercial coal seam gas production (other than for use for mining under a coal mining lease or an oil shale mining lease) is carried out under a relevant petroleum lease; and

Editor's note—

See, however, part 19, division 6 (Transitional provisions for Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004).

(b) providing for processes to decide the priority of overlapping coal mining leases or oil shale mining leases and petroleum tenure applications or potential applications; and

(c) imposing additional requirements for deciding the overlapping applications; and

(d) requiring proposed development plans to accompany all coal mining lease and oil shale mining lease applications; and

(e) imposing restrictions on the authorised activities for particular coal or oil shale mining tenements; and

(f) imposing additional—

(i) requirements relating to development plans for coal mining leases and oil shale mining leases; and

(ii) conditions on coal or oil shale mining tenements.

(2) The following are also relevant to the achievement of the purposes—

(a) section 3A and part 19, division 6;

(b) the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act, section 10, chapter 2, part 8 and chapter 3.