New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

ELECTRICITY (PACIFIC POWER) ACT 1950 - SECT 34D

34D Grant of leases for mining and mining purposes

(1) For the purpose of the carrying on by the Commission or by a corporation with which the Commission has made an arrangement under section 34C of mining operations on any lands referred to in subsection (1) of section 34C the Mining Act 1906 shall be deemed to be amended to the extent necessary:

(a) to authorise the granting of a lease thereunder to the Commission or corporation in respect of those lands notwithstanding that the provisions of that Act relating to applications for leases have not been complied with, and

(b) to give full force and effect to every provision, stipulation, covenant, term and condition of any lease so granted.

(2) Any proclamation, notification or order made before or after the commencement of section 8 of the Electricity Commission (State Coal Mines) Act 1973 that, but for this subsection, would preclude the granting of a lease referred to in subsection (1) shall, to the extent necessary to authorise the granting of the lease, be deemed to have been revoked, cancelled, varied or amended, as the case may require, immediately before the granting of the lease.

(3) Until a lease referred to in subsection (1) is granted, the Governor may, upon such terms and conditions as he or she deems fit, authorise the Commission or a corporation with which the Commission has made an arrangement under section 34C to commence and continue coal and shale mining operations on any of the lands in respect of which the lease is applied for.