New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 173

173 Constitution of mineral claims districts

(1) The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, constitute any land as a mineral claims district and may, by the same or a subsequent order so published, name the district and fix its boundaries.

Note: For orders under this subsection see Gazette No 101 of 20.8.1992, pp 5948, 5949.

(2) Such an order:

(a) may not be made except on the recommendation of the Minister, and

(b) may not be made over land within a reserve if an order under section 367 directs that mineral claims are not to be granted over land in the reserve, and

(c) may not be made over land within an exempted area except in accordance with the consent of the controlling body for that area.