New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

MINING (GENERAL) REGULATION 1997 - REG 10A

10A Activities taken not to be prospecting or mining

(1) For the purposes of section 11A of the Act, any activity carried out for the purpose of recovering:

(a) halite (including solar salts), or

(b) magnesium salts, or

(c) potassium salts, or

(d) sodium salts,

from evaporation basins is taken not to be prospecting or mining if the person who carries out the activity has first given notice of the person’s intention to do so to the Director-General.

(1A) For the purposes of section 11A of the Act, any activity carried out on the following land by Pacific Waste Management Pty Ltd (ACN 002 902 560) for or in connection with the use of the land for waste disposal (including the extraction of material for the purpose of recovering minerals from the material) is taken not to be prospecting or mining:

The land within Reserve No 3228 (constituted under section 367 of the Act by an order published in Gazette No 141 of 17 November 1995 at page 7866), being land situated at Badgerys Creek and having an area of approximately 56.7 hectares.

(1B) For the purposes of section 11A of the Act, any activity carried out on the land described in Schedule 8 (and shown by some distinctive marking on the maps marked “Hunter Enviro-Mining” held in the Department) by Hunter Enviro-Mining (Operations) Pty Limited (ABN 84 096 170 633) for or in connection with the use of the land for the environmental rehabilitation of coal reject emplacement sites (including the extraction of material for the purpose of recovering minerals from the material) is taken not to be prospecting or mining.

(2) A person who carries out any activity described in subclause (1), (1A) or (1B) must pay royalty to the Minister in respect of any publicly owned minerals recovered as a consequence of the carrying out of that activity.

(3) In this clause:
"evaporation basins" means natural depressions, modified natural depressions or man-made structures into which saline groundwater or surface water is pumped or drained for disposal by evaporation, in association with the mitigation or prevention of salinisation of land or water resources.