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MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 156

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 156

156 .         Offences

        (1)         A person who —

            (a)         takes or removes from the mining tenement of any other person any mineral or other mining product without the authority of that other person; or

            (b)         assaults, obstructs, resists or insults —

                  (i)         any warden or any officer of the Department; or

                  (ii)         any other person duly authorised under this Act to perform any act or duty, in the course of performance of that act or duty,

                or who when required to do so by him fails to give to any such warden, officer or person information as to his name, address, or authorisation for being on any land or who gives false or misleading information; or

            (c)         when lawfully evicted or removed under this Act from any mining tenement, re-enters the mining tenement or retakes possession thereof; or

            (d)         prevents, resists or obstructs the taking or diverting of any water or the doing of any other act by any person acting in pursuance of an order of the warden’s court,

                commits an offence against this Act.

        (2)         Subsection (1)(a) does not apply to a person who removes a mineral in the exercise of the authorisation conferred by section 40D(1)(c).

        [Section 156 amended: No. 122 of 1982 s. 28; No. 100 of 1985 s. 108; No. 63 of 2000 s. 6; No. 39 of 2004 s. 81; No. 51 of 2012 s. 37.]