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MINERAL RESOURCES (SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT) ACT 1990 - SECT 79 Rehabilitation plan

MINERAL RESOURCES (SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT) ACT 1990 - SECT 79

Rehabilitation plan

A rehabilitation plan must—

        (a)     take into account—

              (i)     any special characteristics of the land; and

              (ii)     the surrounding environment; and

              (iii)     the need to stabilise the land; and

S. 79(a)(iv) amended by Nos 6/2009 s. 22(1), 68/2014 s. 49(a).

              (iv)     the desirability or otherwise of returning agricultural land to a state that is as close as is reasonably possible to its state before the mining licence, prospecting licence or extractive industry work authority was granted; and

S. 79(a)(v) inserted by No. 82/2000 s. 53.

              (v)     any potential long term degradation of the environment; and

S. 79(b) amended by 76/1998 s. 31(i), substituted by No. 6/2009 s. 22(2).

        (b)     be prepared by—

              (i)     the applicant for the extractive industry work authority after consultation with the owner of the land, if the land is private land; or

S. 79(b)(ii) amended by No. 68/2014 s. 49(b).

              (ii)     the licensee after consultation with the owner of the land, if the land is private land and the licence is a mining licence or prospecting licence.

S. 79A inserted by No. 63/2006 s. 41.