(1) An application
under section 96 or 98 for the forfeiture of a mining tenement for breach of
the prescribed expenditure conditions applicable thereto while the holder
thereof is a company in respect of which a winding up order has been made or a
provisional liquidator has been appointed under the Corporations Law shall not
be an action or proceeding for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 471
of that Law (or any provision of that Law which replaces or is substituted for
that subsection), and notwithstanding anything therein contained to the
contrary, the application may be commenced and proceeded with without the
leave of the Supreme Court, and the mining tenement is liable to forfeiture
accordingly.
(2) The following
matter is declared to be an excluded matter for the purposes of section 5F of
the Corporations Act in relation to section 471B of that Act — an
application under section 96 or 98 for the forfeiture of a mining tenement for
breach of the prescribed expenditure conditions applicable to the tenement
while the holder of the tenement is a company in respect of which a winding up
order has been made, or a provisional liquidator appointed, under the
Corporations Act.
[Section 101 amended: No. 10 of 1982 s. 28; No.
100 of 1985 s. 75; No. 37 of 1993 s. 27; No. 10 of 2001 s. 135; No. 15 of 2002
s. 23; No. 8 of 2009 s. 8.]