Victorian Current Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES (SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT) ACT 1990 - SECT 62

    (1)     The holder of a tourist fossicking authority must not—

        (a)     use any equipment for the purposes of excavation on the land, other than non-mechanical hand tools; or

        (b)     use explosives on the land; or

        (c)     remove or damage any tree or shrub on the land; or

S. 62(1)(d) substituted by No. 16/2006 s. 198(Sch. 2 item 5(8)).

        (d)     disturb any Aboriginal cultural heritage (within the meaning of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 ) on the land.

Penalty:     100 penalty units.

    (2)     The holder of a tourist fossicking authority must make sure that a person who searches for minerals under that authority does not do anything specified in subsection (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d).

Penalty:     100 penalty units.

S. 62(3) amended by No. 25/2008 s. 15.

    (3)     The holder of a tourist fossicking authority must repair any damage to the land arising out of the searching for minerals under that authority by any person.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

Pt 5 Div. 3 (Heading and ss 63–67) amended by Nos 86/1993 s. 28, 82/2000 ss 61(b), 72(a), 6/2009 s. 19, repealed by No. 59/2010 s. 41.

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Part 6—Mining register

S. 68 amended by No. 46/1998
s. 7(Sch. 1), repealed by No. 82/2000 s. 52(1).

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S. 69 (Heading) inserted by No. 63/2006 s. 38(1).