Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) Section 298(3)—
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'(3) The application and any other application for the grant of a mining lease for the same minerals must be considered and decided according to the day on which they are lodged.
'(3A) If the applications were lodged on the same day—
(a) they take the priority the Minister decides, after considering the relative merits of each application; and
(b) the mining registrar must give each applicant a written notice stating there is competition for priority between the applicant's application and another application, or other applications, lodged on the same day as the day on which the applicant's application was lodged.'.
(2) Section 298(12)(a)—
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'(a) conditions; and'.