Queensland Consolidated Acts

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1999 - SECT 10

10 Meaning of on-site activities

(1)
"On-site activities" are activities carried on principally for, or in connection with, exploring for or winning coal and include the following—

(a) constructing—

(i) things required or permitted to be constructed under an exploration permit, mineral development licence or mining lease; or

(ii) for a place mentioned in section 9 (1) (c) —things that are required or permitted to be constructed under an exploration permit, mineral development licence or mining lease;

(b) treating coal and disposing of waste substances;

(c) rehabilitating of a place after coal mining operations;

(d) maintaining and testing plant, equipment or machinery.

(2)
"On-site activities" do not include the following—

(a) airborne geophysical surveys;

(b) transporting product from a coal mine on public roads or public railways or on any other railway;

(c) constructing and installing surface railways;

(d) air transport to and from a coal mine;

(e) pastoral activities;

(f) underground gasification activities on land the subject of—

(i) a mineral development licence or a mining lease for activities relating to mineral (f); or

(ii) an exploration permit if the chief inspector has made a declaration under section 52A ;

(g) an activity declared not to be an on-site activity under a regulation.