Western Australian Current Regulations

MINING REGULATIONS 1981 - REG 47A

47A .         Refund where conditional surrender of mining lease or general purpose lease

        (1)         If —

            (a)         the holder of a mining lease or a general purpose lease surrenders the lease in whole or in part under section 95 conditionally upon the grant of a mining tenement in respect of the whole or any part of the lease; and

            (b)         that mining tenement is granted,

                the holder is entitled to a pro rata refund of rent paid on the whole or such part of the lease as is included in that mining tenement for the period commencing on the day on which that mining tenement is granted.

        (2)         When calculating a pro rata refund for the purposes of subregulation (1) only whole months of the period referred to in that subregulation are to be the subject of the refund.

        [Regulation 47A inserted: Gazette 13 Oct 1995 p. 4817.]

[ 48.         Deleted: Gazette 9 Mar 2007 p. 868.]