(5) Except as provided in this section, nothing
in this Division affects the right, title or interest of any person (other
than a person who is or was trustee of the lands comprised in a
state conservation area) in respect of minerals in any such lands.
(7) Where a provision of the Mining Act
1992 or the Offshore Minerals Act 1999 prevents, or has the effect of
preventing, a person from exercising in lands within a state conservation area
any of the rights conferred by either of those Acts or by an instrument under
either of those Acts, except with the consent or an authorisation of the
Minister for the time being administering the Mining Act 1992 or the
Offshore Minerals Act 1999 , as the case requires, that Minister shall not,
in the case of any such lands, give consent or an authorisation under that
provision without the approval of--
(a) where the lands are not within an area
that was an irrigation area as defined in the Crown Lands Act 1989
immediately before its repeal--the Minister, or