Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The owner of every
coal mine shall in the months of January, April, July, and October in every
year pay to a fund to be known as The Coal Miners’ Welfare Fund a sum
equivalent to the prescribed amount per tonne on the output of all coal
produced from every mine of which the owner was the owner during the preceding
3 months respectively ending on the last day of the preceding month of
December, March, June, or September, as the case may be, and the sums so
payable in respect of any mine shall be recoverable as a debt due to the
Board.
(1a) The owner of
every coal mine shall in the months of January and July in every year pay to
the Fund a sum equivalent to 0.4101 cent per tonne on the output of all coal
sold from every mine of which the owner was the owner during the preceding 6
months respectively ending on the last day of December or June, as the case
may be, and the sums so payable in respect of any mine shall be recoverable as
a debt due to the Board.
(1b) The sums to be
paid under subsections (1) and (1a) are to be credited to separate accounts
forming part of the Fund.
(2) The sums to be
paid under subsections (1) and (1a) are in addition to any royalties that are
to be paid under the Mining Act 1978 .
(3) An owner who does
not pay an amount required under this section to be paid to the Fund commits
an offence and is liable to pay, in addition to that amount, a penalty of one
dollar in respect of each dollar, or fraction of a dollar, of the amount that
the owner should have paid.
(4) All penalties
recovered under subsection (3), less the expenses incurred in their recovery,
are to be paid into, and form part of, the Fund.
[Section 6 amended: No. 13 of 1957 s. 3; No. 113
of 1965 s. 8; No. 94 of 1972 s. 4; No. 76 of 1986 s. 6; No. 59 of 1998 s. 5;
No. 17 of 2006 s. 5.]