Western Australian Current Acts

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 76

76 .         Priorities as to mining tenements

                Subject to the provisions of sections 56A, 70 and 85B as regards the special prospecting licences and mining leases therein referred to and section 94A as regards miscellaneous licences, where an application for a mining lease includes any portion of land included in a current mining tenement held by a person other than the applicant, any mining lease granted on the application shall not include any such portion of land.

        [Section 76 amended: No. 100 of 1985 s. 52; No. 22 of 1990 s. 23; No. 37 of 1993 s. 12(2).]

[ 77.         Deleted: No. 122 of 1982 s. 22.]