MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 13

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 13

13 .         Wardens of mines, mining registrar

        (1)         Any person holding office as a magistrate under the Magistrates Court Act 2004 , may be appointed by the Governor to be a warden of mines and is thereby authorised and empowered to preside in a warden’s court.

        [(2), (3)         deleted]

        (4)         A person who holds office under Part 3 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994 may, with the consent of the Public Sector Commissioner, be appointed to hold or act in the office of a mining registrar notwithstanding that he is not a person appointed to the Department pursuant to section 11 and that person shall, whilst holding, acting in or performing the functions of the office of mining registrar, be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be an officer of the Department.

        [Section 13 amended: No. 100 of 1985 s. 7; No. 32 of 1994 s. 19; No. 39 of 2004 s. 48; No. 59 of 2004 s. 116; No. 39 of 2010 s. 89.]

[ 14.         Deleted: No. 39 of 2004 s. 49.]