Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) From a grant made pursuant to section 3(1) there shall be reserved to the Crown--
(a) all gold and minerals within the meaning of the Mineral Resources Act 1989 and all mines of gold and minerals on or below the surface of the demised land;
(b) all petroleum within the meaning of the Petroleum Act 1923 on or below the surface of the demised land;
(c) the free right of access, including ingress, egress and regress into, upon, over and out of the demised land for the purpose of searching for or working gold and minerals or mines of gold or minerals or of searching for or conducting the operations of obtaining petroleum;
(d) all rights of way for access and for pipe lines and conveyors and for other purposes requisite for obtaining and conveying petroleum, gold, minerals, ore and other material from the demised land.
(2) The Aborigines Act 1971, sections 29 and 30 apply in respect of prospecting or mining in the Shire of Aurukun and the Shire of Mornington as if each of those shires were a reserve for Aborigines established under that Act but for the purpose of that application--
(a) a reference therein to the trustee of the reserve shall be read and construed as a reference to the council of the shire in which the prospecting or mining may occur;
(b) a reference therein to the Minister shall be read and construed as a reference to the Governor in Council.