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MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 27

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 27

27 .         Private land open for mining

        (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: No. 100 of 1985 s. 19; No. 37 of 1993 s. 12(2).]