New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 223

223 Certain land not to be included in opal prospecting area

(1) Land may not be constituted as an opal prospecting area or added to an existing opal prospecting area:

(a) if an application for an authority is pending in respect of the land, or

(b) if an authority is in force in respect of the land, or

(c) if the land forms part of a reserve, an exempted area, a mineral allocation area for opal or a colliery holding, or

(d) if it has been determined in accordance with Schedule 2 that the land is agricultural land.

(2) Land that is within a national park, state conservation area, regional park, historic site, nature reserve, state game reserve, Aboriginal area, protected archaeological area, wildlife district, wildlife refuge, wildlife assessment area or Aboriginal place within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 may not be constituted as an opal prospecting area, or added to an existing opal prospecting area, except with the consent of the Minister administering that Act.