Western Australian Current Acts

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 114A

114A .         Rights conferred under mining tenement exercisable in respect of mining product belonging to Crown

                Where a provision of this Act confers on the holder of a mining tenement (other than a miscellaneous licence) rights in respect of land that is the subject of that mining tenement, the holder of the mining tenement may exercise those rights in respect of any tailings or other mining product left upon that land or any part of that land if —

            (a)         at the time the mining tenement was granted, the tailings or other mining product were or was the property of the Crown; or

            (b)         during the term of the mining tenement the tailings or other mining product become or becomes the property of the Crown,

                by virtue of section 114(7) or clause 7(5) of the Second Schedule.

        [Section 114A inserted: No. 37 of 1993 s. 19(1).]