Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) An application for
a prospecting licence —
(a)
shall be made in the prescribed form; and
(b)
shall be accompanied by the amount of the prescribed rent for the first year
or portion thereof as prescribed; and
(c)
shall be made by reference to a written description of the area of land in
respect of which the licence is sought, and be accompanied by a map on which
are clearly delineated the boundaries of that area; and
[(d) deleted]
(e)
shall be lodged in the prescribed manner; and
(f)
shall be accompanied by the prescribed application fee.
(2) Within the
prescribed period the applicant shall serve such notice of the application as
may be prescribed, on the owner and occupier of the land to which the
application relates and on such other persons as may be prescribed.
(3) An applicant for a
prospecting licence shall at the request of the mining registrar or warden
furnish such further information in relation to his application, or such
evidence in support thereof, as the mining registrar or warden may require but
the mining registrar or warden shall not require information or evidence
relating to assays or other results of any testing or sampling that the
applicant may have carried out on the land the subject of his application.
[Section 41 amended: No. 122 of 1982 s. 9; No. 52
of 1983 s. 3; No. 100 of 1985 s. 28; No. 37 of 1993 s. 26; No. 58 of 1994
s. 8; No. 12 of 2010 s. 16.]