Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Act 2014 (Qld)

Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Act 2014

An Act 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

Chapter 1 Preliminary

Part 1 Introduction

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Act 2014.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

Part 2 Purposes and application of Act

3 Main purposes The main purposes of this Act are— (a) to consolidate particular provisions common to each of the Resource Acts; and (b) to provide for particular common processes that apply to resource authorities; and (c) to manage overlapping coal and petroleum resource authorities for coal seam gas; and (d) to provide for the disqualification of persons from grant or transfer of particular resource authorities; and (e) to assist in achieving the purposes of each of the Resource Acts.

4 How main purposes are achieved (1) The main purposes are achieved by providing for the following matters mainly in this Act, rather than in each of the Resource Acts— (a) dealings, caveats and associated agreements; (b) land access; (c) the new framework for overlapping coal and petroleum resource authorities for coal seam gas; (d) the disqualification from grant or transfer of particular resource authorities; (e) the resource authority register; (f) other miscellaneous matters. (2) It is the intention of Parliament that this Act lead towards the replacement of the Resource Acts with a simplified common framework that will apply to all resource authorities.