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MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 252
Environmental assessment
252 Environmental assessment
(1) The Minister may, on the application of a person who proposes to undertake
an assessment (for the purposes of this Act or the
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 ) of the likely effect on the
environment of the activities to be carried out under an authority or a
mineral claim, grant a permit to the applicant to enter any land so as to
enable the person to undertake the assessment.
(3) The holder of a permit
under this section, and any employee or agent of the holder, may, in
accordance with the permit-- (a) enter the land to which the permit relates,
and
(b) do on that land all such things as are reasonably necessary to carry
out the assessment to which the permit relates.
(6) A permit under this
section may not be granted in respect of land within a national park, state
conservation area, regional park, historic site, nature reserve, karst
conservation reserve, Aboriginal area, wildlife refuge or Aboriginal place
within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 except with
the concurrence of the Minister administering that Act.
(7) A permit under
this section may not be granted in respect of land within a marine park within
the meaning of the Marine Estate Management Act 2014 except with the
concurrence of the relevant Ministers within the meaning of that Act.
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