Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If an application
for a mining lease is accompanied by the documentation referred to in
section 74(1)(ca)(ii), the Director, Geological Survey shall give the Minister
a report as to whether or not there is significant mineralisation in, on or
under the land to which the application relates.
(2) For the purposes
of preparing the report, the Director, Geological Survey may request the
applicant to provide further information in relation to matters dealt with in
the mineralisation report.
(3) The report shall
be based solely on information contained in the mineralisation report and any
further information provided by the applicant in response to a request under
subsection (2).
(4) The Director,
Geological Survey shall give a copy of the report to the mining registrar and
the warden.
(5) The Director
General of Mines shall ensure that the report is made available for public
inspection at reasonable times.
(6) The regulations
may require a person to pay a fee specified in the regulations —
(a) for
inspecting the report; or
(b) for
obtaining a copy of the report or any part of it.
(7) In this section
—
mineralisation report means the mineralisation
report that accompanied the application.
[Section 74A inserted: No. 39 of 2004 s. 30.]