Victorian Consolidated Regulations

MINERAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 2002

S.R. No. 99/2002
Version incorporating amendments as at  1 February 2012

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Regulation Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objectives
   2.      Authorising provision
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Revocation
   5.      Definition

   PART 2-ROYALTIES AND PRODUCTION RETURNS

   6.      Definitions
   7.      Calculation of royalties
   8.      Minister may determine net market value in certain circumstances
   9.      Time of payment
   10.     Production and royalty return

   PART 3-LICENCES

   10B.    Meaning of Competent Person
   11.     Exploration licences
   12.     Mining licences
   12A.    Prospecting licences
   12B.    Retention licences
   13.     Miner's rights
   14.     Tourist fossicking authority
   15.     Revoked
   16A.    Advertising and notice of licence applications relating to coal
           on exempted land
   17.     Marking out of mining licence, prospecting licence or retention licence
   18.     Exemption from marking out licence
   19.     Removal of corner posts
   20.     Boundary marks on a mining licence, prospecting licence or retention licence
   21.     Survey of area of a mining, prospecting or retention licence
   22.     Application for the renewal of a licence
   23.     Notice of application for the renewal of a licence
   24.     Renewal of boundary marks
   24A.    Reportable events at mines
   25.     Work plan
   25AA.   Work plan requirements for a mining licence of 5 hectares
           or less
   25A.    Area work plans
   26.     Annual activity and expenditure return
   27.     Technical report of exploration
   28.     Rent on a prospecting or mining licence
   29.     Variation of licence
   30.     Revoked
   31.     Tenders
   31A.    Advertising and notice of accepted tenders
   32.     Fees for licence transaction

   PART 3A-REQUIREMENTS FOR DECLARED MINES

   32A.    Mine stability requirements for declared mines
   32B.    Reporting relating to declared mines
   32C.    Mine stability levy
   32D.    Amount of mine stability levy
   32E.    How the mine stability levy is to be paid

   PART 4-MINING REGISTER

   33.     Information in documents
   34.     Fees for information
   35.     Certificate of information
   36.     Approved form

   PART 5-MINING INFRINGEMENTS

   37.     Offences
           38-42. Revoked
   43.     Prior convictions

   PART 6-DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST

   44.     Definitions
   45.     Duty of disclosure
   46.     Officer must submit statement of disclosure
   47.     Disclosure of interest register
   48.     Inspection of register
   49.     Report of names of people making disclosures

   PART 7-GENERAL

   50.     Consent for work near dwelling
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           SCHEDULE 1-Revoked Regulations
           SCHEDULE 2-Information Required in Application for Exploration Licence
           SCHEDULE 3-Information Required in Application for Mining
           Licence
           SCHEDULE 3A-Information Required in Application for
           Prospecting Licence
           SCHEDULE 3B-Information Required in Application for Retention Licence
           SCHEDULE 4-Miner's Right
           SCHEDULE 5-Information Required in Application for Tourist Fossicking Authority
           SCHEDULE 6-Revoked
           SCHEDULE 7-Information Required in Notice of Application for
           an Exploration Licence or Retention Licence
           SCHEDULE 8-Information Required in Notice of Application for
           a Mining Licence or Prospecting Licence
           SCHEDULE 9-Information Required in Application for Renewal
           of Mining Licence
           SCHEDULE 10-Information Required in Application for Renewal
           of Exploration Licence
           SCHEDULE 10A-Information Required in Application for Renewal
           of Retention Licence
           SCHEDULE 11-Information Required in Notice of Application for Renewal of Mining Licence to Owner and Occupier
           of Land
           SCHEDULE 12-Information Required in Work Plan for an
           Exploration Licence
           SCHEDULE 13.

   PART 1-INFORMATION REQUIRED IN WORK PLAN FOR
   A MINING LICENCE

   PART 2-DECLARED MINE STABILITY REQUIREMENTS
   AND PROCESSES
           SCHEDULE 13AA-Information Required in Work Plan for a Transitional Licence
           SCHEDULE 13A-Information Required in Work Plan for a
   Prospecting Licence
           SCHEDULE 13B-Information Required in Work Plan for a
   Retention Licence
           SCHEDULE 14-Information Required in Expenditure and Activities Return-Exploration Licence
           SCHEDULE 15-Information Required in Expenditure and Activities Return-Mining Licence
           SCHEDULE 15A-Information Required in Expenditure and
   Activities Return-Prospecting Licence
           SCHEDULE 15B-Information Required in Expenditure and
   Activities Return-Retention Licence
           SCHEDULE 16-Information Required in Technical Report
           SCHEDULE 17-Exploration Licence No.
           SCHEDULE 18-Mining Licence No.
           SCHEDULE 18A-Prospecting Licence No.
           SCHEDULE 18B-Retention Licence No.
           SCHEDULE 19-Fees and Rentals
           SCHEDULE 19A-Prescribed Coal Mines for the Purposes of the
   Mine Stability Levy
           SCHEDULE 20-Revoked
           SCHEDULE 21-Information in Documents Required to be Recorded
   in the Register
           SCHEDULE 22-Mining Infringements
           SCHEDULE 23-Information Required in Statement of Disclosure
           SCHEDULE 24-Landowner's Consent Under Section 45.
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details