New South Wales Repealed Acts

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MINING LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (URANIUM EXPLORATION) ACT 2012 - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2 – Amendment of Mining Regulation 2010

[1] Schedule 1 Minerals

Insert in alphabetical order:

uranium

[2] Schedule 2 Groups of minerals

Omit "thorium" from Group 1.

[3] Schedule 2, Group 11

Insert after Group 10:

Group 11 (Uranium) thorium
uranium

[4] Schedule 10 Fees

Omit "Groups 1-8 and 10 minerals" wherever occurring.
Insert instead "Groups 1-8, 10 and 11 minerals".

[5] Schedule 12 Savings and transitional provisions

Insert after Part 2:

Part 3 - Provisions consequent on enactment of Mining Legislation Amendment (Uranium Exploration) Act 2012

10 Definition In this Part:
"amending Act" means the Mining Legislation Amendment (Uranium Exploration) Act 2012 .

11 Changes to mineral groups Despite the amendment made by Schedule 2 [2] to the amending Act, thorium is taken to continue to be a Group 1 mineral for the following purposes:

(a) the determination of an application for, and the granting of, an exploration licence or a renewal of an exploration licence, if the application was made (but not determined) before the commencement of that amendment,

(b) the operation of an exploration licence in respect of Group 1 minerals, and an application for the renewal of, and the renewal of, any such licence, if the original licence was granted before that commencement or granted as referred to in paragraph (a).