Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person shall not at any time be the holder of or have an interest, direct or indirect, in more than 2 mining claims.
(2) The Minister may call upon a person to show cause why any mining claim or interest held by that person in contravention of subsection (1) should not be cancelled.
(3) If the Minister is not satisfied that there is good reason why the Minister should not do so, the Minister may direct that any such mining claim or interest shall be cancelled and the mining registrar shall without further authority cancel that mining claim or interest.
(4) Where, pursuant to subsection (3) an interest only in a mining claim is cancelled, each holder of any other interest in the mining claim shall hold an interest in the mining claim in the same proportion that the holder's original interest bears to the aggregate of the remaining interests.