New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 289

289 Returns

(1) The holder of a mining lease is to furnish to the Minister returns in such form, at such intervals, in respect of such periods and containing such information, as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(2) The Minister may authorise the holder of a mining lease to furnish to the Minister returns in a different form, at different intervals or in respect of different periods from the form, intervals or periods so prescribed.

(3) A person must not:

(a) refuse or fail to comply with a requirement under this section to the extent to which the person is capable of complying with it, or

(b) in purported compliance with such a requirement, furnish information that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.