• Specific Year
    Any

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 244 Definitions

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 244

Definitions

244 Definitions

In this Division--


"landholder" of land means the owner of an estate in fee simple of the land, the controlling body in relation to an exempted area or the holder, over or in the land, of--

(a) a lease or licence under the Crown Land Management Act 2016 , or
(b) any continued incomplete tenure purchase within the meaning of Schedule 1 to the Crown Land Management Act 2016 .

"mining plant" means any building, plant, machinery, equipment, tools or other property that has been used for prospecting, mining or ancillary mining activities, whether or not affixed to land, but does not include any timber or other material used or applied in the construction or support of any shaft, drive, gallery, adit, terrace, race, dam or other mining work.


"prescribed period" , in relation to land that has ceased to be subject to an authorisation, means the period of 6 months from the date on which the land ceased to be subject to the authorisation or any longer period that the Minister may, in any particular case, allow.