Western Australian Current Acts

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 115A

115A .         Mineral exploration reports

        (1)         In this section —

        guidelines means guidelines published under the regulations;

        mineral exploration report means a report containing records of the progress and results of —

            (a)         programmes involving the application of one or more of the geological sciences;

            (b)         drilling programmes;

            (c)         activities involving the collection and assaying of soil, rock, groundwater and mineral samples,

        that have been carried out in search for minerals;

        operations report means a report of the kind required under section 51, 68(3), 70H(1)(f) or 82(1)(e).

        (2)         The holder of a mining tenement shall file a mineral exploration report, or cause a mineral exploration report to be filed —

            (a)         in conjunction with an operations report in such circumstances as are set out in the guidelines; and

            (b)         whenever required to do so by the Minister by notice in writing.

        (3)         A mineral exploration report is to be filed in the prescribed manner and is to be in the form required by the guidelines and is to contain information of the kind required by the guidelines.

        (4)         The Minister may, under the guidelines, approve of arrangements for combined mineral exploration reports to be filed for 2 or more mining tenements and mineral exploration reports can be filed under those arrangements despite the requirement of subsection (2)(a) for them to be filed in conjunction with operations reports.

        (5)         The Minister may, under the guidelines, cancel arrangements referred to in subsection (4).

        [Section 115A inserted: No. 58 of 1994 s. 45; amended: No. 12 of 2010 s. 37.]