Queensland Numbered Acts

STRONG AND SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE COMMUNITIES ACT 2017

- As at 31 August 2017
- Act 28 of 2017

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Object of Act
   4.      Act binds all persons
   5.      Definitions

   PART 2 - PROVISIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS OF COMMUNITIES IN THE VICINITY OF LARGE RESOURCE PROJECTS

   6.      Prohibition on 100% fly-in fly-out workers for large resource projects
   7.      Requirement for operational workforce management plan if s 6 contravened
   7A.     Coordinator-General may make guideline for operational workforce management plan
   8.      Offence relating to advertising or document about recruitment for large resource project
   9.      Requirement for owner of, or proponent for, large resource project to prepare a social impact assessment
   10.     Requirement for social impact assessment for large resource projects under the Environmental Protection Act 1994
   11.     Coordinator-General may state conditions to manage the social impact of large resource projects generally
   12.     Coordinator-General may nominate large resource project as a project for which persons employed during construction phase are workers for this Act
   13.     Publication of details of nearby regional communities and large resource projects
   14.     Owner of large resource project must advise Coordinator-General of particular matters
           14A . Coordinator-General may require relevant information
   14B.    Giving Coordinator-General a false or misleading document
   15.     Regulation-making power

   PART 3 - AMENDMENT OF ACTS

           Division 1 - Amendment of this Act

   16.     Act amended
   17.     Amendment of long title

           Division 2 - Amendment of Anti-Discrimination Act 1991

   18.     Act amended
   19.     Insertion of new ch 5B
   20.     Amendment of schedule (Dictionary)

           Division 3 - Amendment of Mineral Resources Act 1989

   21.     Act amended
   22.     Amendment of s 6 (Meaning of mineral)
   23.     Amendment of s 197 (Application for renewal of mineral development licence)
   24.     Amendment of s 208 (Adding other minerals to licence)
   25.     Amendment of s 232 (Eligible person may apply for mining lease)
   26.     Amendment of s 334J (Access rights for particular activities)
   27.     Amendment of s 334ZE (Persons who may apply for, or be granted, a mining tenement for land in the area of MDLA364)
   28.     Amendment of s 334ZF (Persons who may apply for, or be granted, a mining tenement for particular land in the area of SL12/42239)
   29.     Insertion of new ch 12, pt 4A
   30.     Amendment of s 363 (Substantive jurisdiction)
   31.     Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary)
           SCHEDULE 1