Queensland Heritage Act 1992

If the chief executive is satisfied the application should be approved, the chief executive must—

approve the application, with or without conditions; and

within 10 business days after approving the application, give the applicant a permit to enter the protected area.

The permit applies for the period stated in it.

The conditions may, for example—

require that operations after entry be supervised by a person with appropriate qualifications and experience stated in the condition; or

require that the operations after entry be carried out as required by stated professional standards; or

make provision for the way in which artefacts of possible cultural heritage significance uncovered in the course of the operations must be dealt with; or

require the holder of the permit to pay stated fees, or fees calculated under a stated scale, for the evaluation, cataloguing and curation of artefacts uncovered during the operations; or

as far as circumstances permit, require the artefacts to be kept and preserved in the Queensland Museum.

A person must not contravene a condition of a permit.