Environmental Law

Queensland's MERCPA is now in full force – what do you need to know?

By: James Plumb, Partner and Kelly Pain, Senior Associate 

As we reported in our October 2014 newsletter titled ‘Common Provisions Act – implications for land access and compensation’, the Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Act 2014 (Qld) (MERCPA) received royal assent on 26 September 2014.

A number of key provisions under MERCPA, however, did not commence until 27 September 2016. In addition, two key supporting regulations also commenced on the 27th: the Mineral and Energy (Common Provisions) Regulation 2016 and the Mineral and Energy (Common Provisions) Transitional Regulation 2016.

MERCPA now replaces certain key aspects of the existing mining and petroleum legislation.

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