New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 227

227 Restrictions on grant of licence

(1) An opal prospecting licence may not be granted over an opal prospecting block--

(a) to an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years,

(b) over which any other opal prospecting licence is in force or has (at any time within the 14 days preceding the day on which the application for the licence was lodged) been in force, or

(c) over which a mineral claim is in force, or

(d) to a person who is the holder of an opal prospecting licence over any other opal prospecting block, or

(e) during a period specified in the order by which the opal prospecting block is constituted as a period during which such a licence may not be granted.

(2) An opal prospecting licence may not be granted over any part of an opal prospecting block in respect of which an application for a mineral claim is pending.