Coal Mine Health and Safety Amendment Regulation 2008 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Coal Mine Health and Safety

Amendment Regulation 2008

under the

Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002.

IAN MACDONALD, M.L.C., Minister for Mineral Resources

Explanatory note
Clause 6 and Schedule 1 of the Coal Mine Health and Safety Regulation 2006 (the Regulation) prescribe the places of work to which the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002 (the Act) does not apply. This Regulation makes it clear that the Act does apply to abandoned coal operations generally but does not apply to certain places of work that are abandoned coal operations and that are described in Schedule 1.
Clause 88 of the Regulation provides that a bord and pillar system must be used in underground mines, unless the Minister approves the use of another mining method. Clause 20 of Schedule 2 is a savings provision which ensures that approvals given by the Minister under similar provisions of the repealed Coal Mines Regulation Act 1982 continue to have effect. Both these clauses were to expire on 1 July 2008. This Regulation extends the operation of these clauses until 1 September 2009.

This Regulation is made under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002, including sections 8 and 192 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 76 of 27 June 2008, page 5988	Page 1
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Clause 1	Coal Mine Health and Safety Amendment Regulation 2008

Coal Mine Health and Safety Amendment Regulation

2008

under the

Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Coal Mine Health and Safety Amendment
Regulation 2008.

2 Amendment of Coal Mine Health and Safety Regulation 2006

The Coal Mine Health and Safety Regulation 2006 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Coal Mine Health and Safety Amendment Regulation 2008

Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Clause 6 Act does not apply to certain places

Omit “(not being places referred to in section 8 (2) of the Act)”.

[2]      Clause 88 Bord and pillar system to be used in underground mines

Omit the words “1 July 2008” from clause 88 (6).
Insert instead “1 September 2009”.

[3]      Schedule 2 Savings and transitional provisions

Omit the words “1 July 2008” wherever occurring in clause 20.
Insert instead “1 September 2009”.

BY AUTHORITY