MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 82A

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 82A

82A .         Condition to be included in certain mining leases

        (1)         This section applies to a mining lease if —

            (a)         the application for the mining lease was made under this Act, but was not determined, before the commencement of section 33 of the Mining Amendment Act 2004 ; or

            (b)         the application for the mining lease was accompanied by the documentation referred to in section 74(1)(ca)(ii).

        (2)         Every mining lease to which this section applies shall be deemed to be granted subject to a condition requiring the lessee, before the lessee carries out mining operations of a prescribed kind on any part of the land the subject of the mining lease —

            (a)         to lodge in the prescribed manner a mining proposal in respect of those operations; and

            (ba)         to pay the prescribed assessment fee in respect of the mining proposal; and

            (b)         to obtain written approval for the mining proposal from a prescribed official.

        [Section 82A inserted: No. 39 of 2004 s. 33; amended: No. 51 of 2012 s. 25.]