Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINING AND QUARRYING SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1999 - SECT 11

11 Meaning of quarry

(1) A
"quarry" is a place on land where operations are carried on, continuously or from time to time, to produce construction or road building material.

Examples of construction or road building material—

aggregates, road base, manufactured sand, rail ballast, armour rock, landscaping products

(2) However, a place on land where operations are carried on, continuously or from time to time, to produce construction or road building material is not a
"quarry" if the operations are carried on—

(a) to produce construction or road building material substantially for use at a construction site at the place, or that adjoins or is adjacent to the place; or

(b) to excavate building foundations as part of construction work; or

(c) to extract, but not crush or shape—

(i) any type of gravel; or

Examples of gravel—

road gravel or river gravel

(ii) river sand; or

(d) to redevelop the place as a place for any of the following—

(i) housing;

(ii) a shopping complex;

(iii) an industrial estate;

(iv) a recreation area;

(v) a landfill site.

(3) In this section—

"construction site" means a place on land where construction work is performed.

"construction work" see the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 .