Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A mining registrar may grant a prospecting permit for land if the mining registrar is satisfied an eligible person has--
(a) made a genuine application that complies with this part, and otherwise complied with the requirements of this Act; and
(b) deposited the amount of security required to be deposited for the permit.
(2) A mining registrar, who is of the opinion that an applicant for a prospecting permit had previously contravened or failed to comply with any provision of this Act, the repealed Acts, any other Act about mining or the Fossicking Act 1994, may, whether or not that person had been charged or convicted of an offence in respect of that contravention or failure to comply, reject the application.
(3) For subsection (2), a company is taken to have contravened a provision of this Act if the person contravening the provision is--
(a) an officer or employee of the company; or
(b) someone else who is in a position to control or substantially influence the company's affairs.