New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 11A

11A Certain activities taken not to be prospecting or mining

(1) The regulations may declare that a specified activity is taken not to be prospecting or mining for the purposes of this Act.

(2) A regulation referred to in subsection (1):

(a) may require a person who proposes to carry out any such activity to give notice of intention to do so to the Director-General, and

(b) may require a person who carries out any such activity to pay royalty to the Minister in respect of any publicly owned minerals recovered as a consequence of the carrying out of that activity.

(3) Part 14 applies to royalty payable under subsection (2) (b) in the same way as it applies to royalty payable on a mineral recovered under a mining lease.