Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 258

258 Notice by administering authority to make surrender application

(1) This section applies for an environmental authority for—

(a) a mining activity; or

(b) a petroleum activity; or

(c) a geothermal activity.

(2) The administering authority may, by written notice (a
"surrender notice" ), require the holder of the environmental authority to make a surrender application if—

(a) a relevant tenure for the authority is cancelled; or

(b) a relevant tenure for the authority is, according to its provisions, to end other than by cancellation; or

(c) if the authority is for a petroleum activity—the area of a relevant tenure for the authority is reduced under a requirement of noncompliance action taken under resource legislation; or

(d) part of the area of a relevant tenure for the authority is relinquished, other than under a requirement of noncompliance action taken under resource legislation; or

(e) part of the area of a relevant tenure for the authority is surrendered.

(3) The surrender notice must—

(a) state the period of at least 30 business days within which the surrender application must be made; and

(b) be accompanied by, or include, an information notice about the authority’s decisions to require the surrender application and to fix the stated period.

(4) A surrender application under subsection (2) must be for the environmental authority to the extent it relates to the relevant tenure cancelled, expired or affected by a relinquishment, reduction in area or partial surrender.