New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 173A

173A Ancillary orders

(1) The Director-General may, by order published in the Gazette, prohibit, either indefinitely or until a specified date, the lodging of applications for mineral claims over specified land in a mineral claims district.

(2) The Director-General may, by order published in the Gazette, constitute any land in a mineral claims district as a preserved mining field and may, by the same or a subsequent order so published, name the preserved mining field and fix its boundaries.

(3) An order under this section may not be made with respect to land that is within an area for which a board of management is constituted under section 359 unless the Director-General:

(a) has notified the board of the proposed order, and

(b) has taken into consideration any submission made by the board in relation to the proposed order.