Queensland Numbered Acts

MINING AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2007 No. 46 - SECT 90

After section 404D--

insert--

'(1) A person must not perform a mining activity in a way that obstructs a road, unless the mining activity is expressly authorised under a mining tenement.

Maximum penalty--200 penalty units.

'(2) A person must not, in performing a mining activity, undermine a road in a way that endangers any person using, or likely to use, the road.

Maximum penalty--200 penalty units.

'(3) In this section--

mining activity means an activity for the purpose of mining and includes, for example--

(a) depositing earth or material; and

(b) disturbing the surface of the ground; and

(c) erecting works; and

(d) sinking a shaft.'.