New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

MINING (GENERAL) REGULATION 1997 - REG 34

34 Applications: section 226

(1) For the purposes of section 226 (3) of the Act, the prescribed manner of determining the order in which simultaneous applications for opal prospecting licences are to be dealt with is for the mining registrar to conduct a ballot in accordance with the following provisions:

(a) the names of each of the applicants are to be written on separate tickets, each of the same size and shape,

(b) the tickets are to be placed in a box or other receptacle and thoroughly mixed,

(c) the mining registrar is then, without looking, to select each of the tickets, one by one, from the box or receptacle.

(2) The ballot is to be conducted in the presence of such of the applicants as wish to be present.

(3) The applications are to be dealt with in the order in which the tickets bearing the applicants’ names are drawn from the box or receptacle.