Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Extractive Industries Development Act 1995 - SECT 1

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Purposes

1. Purposes

The main purposes of this Act are to-

   (a)  provide a co-ordinated assessment and approvals process for extractive
        industries;

   (b)  ensure that extractive industry operations are carried out with safe
        operating standards and in a manner that ensures the rehabilitation of
        quarried land to a safe and stable landform;

   (c)  provide a procedure for notification of proposed extractive industries
        to licence holders under the
        Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990;

   (d)  provide for the payment of royalties for stone extracted from Crown
        land.