The Act intends to provide for the first step in creating a simplified common framework for managing resource authorities in order to optimise development and use of Queensland’s mineral and energy resources and to manage overlapping coal and petroleum resource authorities for coal seam gas. The Act provides changes to the land access regime, including the restricted land regime, for resource authorities. The Act also makes changes to the notification and objection procedures for mining leases and environmental authorities. Lastly, the Act provides a new framework for overlapping coal and gas tenements.
The Act also repeals the Coal and Oil Shale Mine Workers’ Superannuation Act 1989, and amends the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003, the Environmental Protection Act 1994, the Geothermal Energy Act 2010, the Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2009, the Land Court Act 2000, the Mineral Resources Act 1989, the Mount Isa Mines Limited Agreement Act 1985, the Petroleum Act 1923, the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004, the Property Law Act 1974, the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971, the Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Act 2003 and the Mineral Resources Regulation 2013 for particular purposes
For further information, see the Explanatory Note.