New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 32C

32C Authority conferred by low-impact licence

(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, determine the kind of prospecting operations that may be authorised by a low-impact exploration licence, being operations that the Minister is satisfied are unlikely to have a significant impact on the land over which the licence may be granted.

Note: For orders under this subsection see Gazette No 120 of 15.10.1999, p 10011.

(2) The conditions to which a low-impact exploration licence is subject are to limit the prospecting operations authorised by the licence to all or some of the prospecting operations of the kind determined by the Minister under this section.

(3) A change in the prospecting operations determined by the Minister under this section does not affect a low-impact exploration licence that is in force at the time the change is made.