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MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 56B

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 56B

56B .         Certain licence holders to have right to apply for further prospecting licence

        (1)         In this section —

        relevant licence means a prospecting licence applied for before 10 February 2006.

        (2)         Despite sections 18, 23 and 27 but subject to the other provisions of this Act, the holder of a relevant licence has, while the licence continues in force, the right to apply for a prospecting licence in respect of the whole or any part of the land the subject of the relevant licence.

        (3)         Where the holder of a relevant licence exercises the right conferred by subsection (2) and the term of the relevant licence would but for this subsection expire, the relevant licence shall continue in force in respect of the land the subject of the application for a prospecting licence until the application is determined.

        (4)         If the holder of a relevant licence transfers the licence after making an application for a prospecting licence in the exercise of the right conferred by subsection (2), the application continues in the name of the transferee of the licence as if the transferee had made it.

        [Section 56B inserted: No. 39 of 2004 s. 7; amended: No. 51 of 2012 s. 18.]

[ 56AA.         Deleted: No. 52 of 1995 s. 25.]