Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 43

43 .         Prospecting licence not to include land already the subject of a mining tenement

        (1)         Where an application for a prospecting licence relates to land that is, or was when the application was made, the subject of a mining tenement, any prospecting licence granted in respect of that application shall not include that land.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a special prospecting licence granted under section 56A, 70 or 85B or a prospecting licence granted in respect of an application under section 56B or a reversion licence application.

        [Section 43 inserted by No. 15 of 2002 s. 6; amended by No. 39 of 2004 s. 4; No. 27 of 2005 s. 5.]