Western Australian Current Acts

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 17

17 .         Designated tenement contact

        (1)         In this section —

        give includes serve, send or any similar expression;

        prescribed provision means a provision of this Act, or the regulations made for the purposes of this Act —

            (a)         under which the Minister, a warden or any official of the Department is required or permitted to give information, a document, a notice or a notification to a person who holds, or has applied for, a mining tenement; and

            (b)         that is prescribed for the purpose of this section.

        (2)         Despite anything else in this Act, a prescribed provision is to be taken to have been complied with if —

            (a)         under the prescribed provision, information, a document, a notice or a notification is required or permitted to be given to a person who holds, or has applied for, a mining tenement; and

            (b)         the information, document, notice or notification referred to in the provision is given to the designated tenement contact for that mining tenement or application.

        [Section 17 inserted: No. 44 of 2016 s. 21; amended: No. 39 of 2022 s. 5.]