MINERAL RESOURCES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2005 No. 8 - SECT 63 63 Insertion of new ss 49A and 49B

MINERAL RESOURCES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2005 No. 8 - SECT 63

After section 49--

insert--

'(1) The mere fact of the existence of a geothermal exploration permit is taken to be an authorisation from its holder to the chief executive to do the following, after the end of any confidentiality period prescribed under a regulation--

(a) publish, in the way prescribed under a regulation, required information for the permit for public use, including, for example, to support geothermal exploration;

(b) on payment of a fee prescribed under a regulation, make the information available to any person.

'(2) Any confidentiality period mentioned in subsection (1) ends if the information is about an authorised activity carried out solely in an area that is no longer in the area of the permit.

'(3) The authorisation is not affected by the ending of the permit.

'(4) In this section--

authorised activity, for a geothermal exploration permit, is an activity that its holder is, under this Act or the permit, entitled to carry out in relation to the permit.

'The mere fact of the existence of a geothermal exploration permit is also taken to be an authorisation from its holder to the chief executive to use required information for the permit for--

(a) purposes reasonably related to this Act that are required for the permit; or

(b) the services of the State.'.