Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A mining tenement may be held by 2 or more persons as joint tenants or as tenants in common.
(2) If, under this Act--
(a) an application is made for, or for approval to assign, a mining tenement for more than 1 proposed holder or assignee; and
(b) the application does not show whether the proposed holders or assignees are to hold as joint tenants or as tenants in common; and
(c) the application is granted;
the chief executive or a mining registrar must record in the appropriate register that the holders or assignees hold the mining tenement as tenants in common.
(3) In this section--
mining tenement includes an interest in a mining tenement.