Western Australian Current Regulations

NATIVE TITLE (STATE PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS 2000 - REG 27

27 .         Transitional: programme for dealing with existing mining applications (Schedule 3 of the Act clause 3)

        (1)         In this regulation —

        representative body area means an area for which the Commonwealth Minister has invited applications under section 203AA of the NTA from eligible bodies for recognition as the representative body for that area.

        (2)         To enable the giving of notices under sections 2.12 and 3.10 of the Act of Part 2 acts and Part 3 acts to which existing mining applications relate to be spread over a period of time, the number of acts of which notice is given by the Government party is not to exceed 200 in any 14 day period.

        (3)         For the purpose of subregulation (2), the giving of notices of acts relating to a representative body area in the State specified in column 1 of the Table to this subregulation is not in any 14 day period to exceed the number in column 2 of that Table.

Table

Representative body area	Number of acts
Kimberley	25
Pilbara	25
Central Desert	50
Geraldton	40
Goldfields	100
Southwest	25

        (4)         For the purposes of subregulations (2) and (3), if a notice is in respect of more than one act in relation to a proponent in contiguous areas in a representative body area, the acts are to be counted as one act.