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MINING ACT 1971 - SECT 56Q

56Q—Preliminary

        (1)         This Division applies if both subsections (2) and (3) apply (subject to the operation of subsection (4)).

        (2)         This Division applies in relation to—

            (a)         a mining lease; and

            (b)         a retention lease; and

            (c)         a miscellaneous purposes licence.

        (3)         This Division applies in relation to a proposal by the tenement holder

            (a)         to make a change to the authorised operations to be carried out under the tenement; or

            (b)         without limiting paragraph (a)—to make a change—

                  (i)         in the mineral that is intended to be recovered; or

                  (ii)         that may reduce the ability of the tenement holder to achieve a particular outcome, including an environmental outcome, or that is a change to the criteria to be adopted to measure a particular outcome; or

                  (iii)         to the terms or conditions of the tenement; or

            (c)         to make a change of any prescribed kind.

        (4)         This Division does not apply in any circumstances prescribed by the regulations.

        (5)         A change to which this Division applies must not be made without the approval of the Minister.

Maximum penalty: $250 000.



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