MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 368
Mineral allocation areas
MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 368
Mineral allocation areas
368 Mineral allocation areas
(1) The Governor may, by order published in the
Gazette, constitute any land as a mineral allocation area and may, by the same
or a subsequent order so published, name the area and fix its boundaries.
Editorial note : For orders under this subsection see Gazettes No 101 of
20.8.1992, p 5946; No 127 of 19.11.1993, p 6850; No 35 of 11.2.1994, p 630; No
102 of 3.7.1998, p 5258; No 81 of 16.7.1999, p 5023; No 57 of 23.3.2001, p
1494; No 100 of 22.6.2001, p 4276; No 124 of 8.8.2003, p 7884; No 37 of
24.3.2006, p 1571; No 182 of 14.12.2007, p 9633; No 92 of 14.9.2012, p 3937;
No 113 of 26.10.2012, p 4479; No 106 of 27.11.2015, p 3812; No 23 of 1.4.2016,
p 559; No 77 of 10.8.2018, pp 5157, 5162; No 179 of 20.12.2019, n2019-3958 and
No 16 of 24.1.2020, n2020-130. From April 2021, PCO is no longer updating
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(2) A mineral allocation area may be constituted for all
minerals, for specified minerals or groups of minerals or for all minerals
other than specified minerals or groups of minerals.
(3) More than one
mineral allocation area may be constituted in respect of any land.
(4) A
mineral is not an allocated mineral in an area while the mineral is a
controlled release mineral in that area.
