Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) For so long as a caveat remains in force, a mining registrar shall not approve any assignment or mortgage in respect of the mining claim identified in the caveat unless—
(a) the assignment or mortgage is specifically excepted in the caveat; or
(b) the written consent of the caveator in the approved form to the approval of the assignment or mortgage is lodged with the mining registrar.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), unless and until a caveat is removed or withdrawn as prescribed, a caveat continues in force—
(a) in a case where the consent of each holder of the mining claim concerned has been lodged with the caveat, for the term specified in the caveat or, if no term is specified, indefinitely; or
(b) in a case where the caveat (not being a caveat referred to in paragraph (a)) specifies a period of not more than 3 months during which it is to continue in force, until the expiration of that period; or
(c) in a case where the Land Court so orders for so long as that order remains in force; or
(d) in any other case, until the expiration of 3 months from the date of lodgement of the caveat.