New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

MINING (GENERAL) REGULATION 1997 - REG 9

9 Mining for privately owned minerals: section 8

(1) For the purposes of section 8 (1) (b) of the Act, the security to be lodged with the Director-General:

(a) must be:

(i) in the form of cash, or

(ii) in the form of a security instrument of a kind approved by the Minister, being an instrument issued by a bank, building society, credit union or other financial institution so approved, or

(iii) in such other form as the Director-General may approve, and

(b) is to be of an amount determined by the Minister.

(2) For the purposes of section 8 (1) (c) of the Act, the conditions in accordance with which a person must prospect for or mine privately owned minerals are the conditions set out in Schedule 3.

(3) For the purposes of section 8 (2) (c) of the Act, the prescribed manner for describing the land on which prospecting or mining operations are to be carried on is by means of:

(a) a plan drawn in accordance with the statutory surveying requirements, or

(b) a standard map showing the land to which the relevant notice relates by means of distinctive marking or colouring, indicating the distance and bearing of each side of the area and a connection, by distance and bearing, to a survey mark.