Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister may, at any time, decide excluded land for a lease or a lease proposed to be granted under section 40.
(2) However, the power under subsection (1) may be exercised only when the Minister is deciding whether to—
(a) grant or renew the lease; or
(b) approve any later development plan for the lease.
(3) However, excluded land—
(a) must be within any sub-block that the lease states is included in the area of the lease; and
(b) can not be a whole sub-block.
(4) For subsection (3)(a), if the instrument—
(a) states that the lease's area includes land within a block; but
(b) does not include or exclude any particular sub-block within that block;
the reference to the block is a reference to all sub-blocks within the block, other than any sub-block that is completely within the area of another 1923 Act petroleum tenure or a 2004 Act petroleum tenure.
(5) Excluded land may be described in a way the Minister considers appropriate, including, for example, by area or by reference to a stated type of land.
(6) Land ceases to be excluded land for a lease if, for any reason, the sub-block in which the land is located ceases to be in the area of the lease.