Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to this
Act, a mining tenement may be applied for in respect of any private land
(which for the purposes of this Division does not include private land that is
the subject of a mining tenement, other than in relation to mining for gold
pursuant to a special prospecting licence or mining lease under
section 56A, 70 or 85B in which case the land which is the subject of the
application for that licence or lease is to be dealt with as private land) and
such land is open for mining in accordance with this Act.
(2) This Division does
not apply to the land specified in the Third Schedule.
[Section 27 amended by No. 100 of 1985
s. 19; No. 37 of 1993 s. 12(2).]