South Australian Consolidated Regulations

OPAL MINING REGULATIONS 1997

under the Opal Mining Act 1995

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Exempt land
   5.      Major working area--Coober Pedy

   PART 2--Plates and permits

   6.      Identification plates
   7.      Replacement or surrender of permit

   PART 3--Size, shape and dimensions of areas

   8.      Size
   9.      Shape, dimensions and availability

   PART 4--Mode of taking possession etc

   10.     Mode of taking possession
   11.     Notification of pegging
   12.     Application for registration or renewal of tenement--access to office of Mining Registrar
   13.     Display of registration number

   PART 5--Working conditions--precious stones claims

   14.     Working conditions
   15.     Amalgamation of working conditions
   16.     Suspension of working conditions
   17.     Exemptions

   PART 6--General provisions for tenements

   18.     Removal of posts
   19.     Insufficiently defined tenements
   20.     Rectification of tenement boundary
   21.     Action to comply
   22.     Reduction in area of a tenement
   23.     Time for renewal of tenement
   24.     Roads and pipelines across tenements

   PART 7--Opal mining co-operation agreements

   25.     Prescribed requirements

   PART 8--Miscellaneous

   26.     Verification of membership of association
   27.     Amendments to Mining Register
   28.     Offices of Mining Registrar
   29.     Change of address
   30.     Forms
   31.     Application for native title declaration
   32.     Approved associations for umbrella authorisations
   33.     Notice initiating negotiations with native title parties
   34.     Service of documents
   35.     Fees
   36.     Operations near certain residences
   37.     Validation of notice of entry
   38.     Warden's Court--costs
   39.     Offences
           SCHEDULE 1--Major working area--Coober Pedy
           SCHEDULE 2--Fees
           SCHEDULE 3--Form of notice initiating negotiations with native title parties
           Legislative history