New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2002 - SECT 78

78 Duty to give notice of drilling operations

(1) An exploration holder must not commence drilling operations unless the exploration holder has given the Chief Inspector at least 7 days’ written notice of the operations.

(1A) If notice has been given of drilling operations on particular land, no further notice is required if other related drilling operations are later commenced on that land.

(2) That notice must contain the details required by the regulations.

(3) In this section:
"drilling operation" means any drilling operation carried out from the surface in the course of searching for coal or the mining of coal and includes:

(a) drilling carried out under the authority of section 81 of the Mining Act 1992 , and

(b) drilling done for mining purposes in connection with the mining of coal, and

(c) the preparation of a drill site, and

(d) the restoration of a drill site.