New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 282

282 Liability to pay royalty--publicly owned minerals

(1) The holder of a mining lease is liable to pay royalty to the Crown on publicly owned minerals recovered by the holder under the lease.

(1A) The holder of a mining sublease is liable to pay royalty to the Crown on publicly owned minerals recovered from the sublease area.

(1B) Despite subsection (1), the holder of a mining lease remains liable to pay royalty on publicly owned minerals recovered from a sublease area only to the extent that the royalty has not been paid by the holder of the sublease.

(2) Royalty that is payable to the Crown under a condition of a mining lease (being a condition of the kind referred to in clause 7A (3) of Schedule 1B) is payable in addition to, and not instead of, royalty payable under this Division.