Mines Regulation Act Amendment Act 1968 (Qld)

453 O1tPE1tsIF ANNO SEPTIMO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 52 of 1968 An Act to Amend The Mines Regulation Act of 1964 in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 23RD DECEMBER, 19681 BE IT ENACTED by the Queen ' s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same , as follows:- 1. (1) Short title. This Act may be cited as the Mines Regulation Act Amendment Act 1968. (2) Principal Act. The Mines Regulation Act of1964 is in this Act called the Principal Act.

454 Mines Regulation Act Amendment Act 1968, No. 52 (3) Collective title . The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be collectively cited as the Mines Regulation Act1964-1968. 2. Amendments to s. 5 . Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by- (a) omitting the definition " Mine " and inserting in its stead the following definition:- " " Mine "-When used- (a) as a verb, to carry on any operation with a view to or for the purpose of winning mineral from a place where it occurs naturally or extracting mineral from its natural state or disposing of any mineral in connexion with such winning or extraction or disposing of waste substances resulting from such winning or extraction; (b) as a noun, a place where any mining within the meaning of subparagraph (a) of this definition is carried on, and any place or premises (including those under construction) intended or being maintained at the relevant time for use as a place where any substance or thing is stored as an associated activity of such mining and any disused or abandoned part of a place which is a mine within the meaning of the foregoing provisions of this subparagraph;"; (b) omitting the definition " Mineral " and inserting in its stead the following definition:- Mineral "-Any substance which occurs naturally as part of the earth's crust and any substance which may be extracted from such a substance other than- (a) living matter; (b) coal, including fire-clay; (c) petroleum within the meaning of The Petroleum Acts 1923 to 1967; (d) soil, sand, gravel, rock, or water to be used or to be supplied for use as such, whether intact or in a broken form, save rock mined in block form for building; (e) to the extent it is so declared, any other substance for the time being declared by the Governor in Council not to be a mineral for the purposes of the Principal Act either generally or in the circumstances so declared, and, to the extent it is so declared, any substance (including any substance referred to in provisions (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this definition) for the time being declared by the Governor to be a mineral for the purposes of the Principal Act either generally or in the circumstances so declared;"; (c) adding the following paragraph:- "A derivative of a term to which a meaning is assigned by this section, either by way of definition in this section or by reference to the Principal Act, shall, when used in this Act, bear a meaning corresponding to the meaning so assigned to that term.

Mines Regulation Act Amendment Act 1968, No. 52 455 3. Amendment to s. 54 . Section 54 of the Principal Act is amended by, in subsection (1), omitting subparagraph (o) and inserting in its stead the following subparagraph:- (o) the regulation, inspection, preservation, maintenance, and protection of places, once mines, which are disused for mining or abandoned and of every part thereof; the safety of and the prevention of accidents in such places; the steps to be taken by persons (including occupiers for the time being of the surface of such places) thereby required, from time to time, to secure such preservation, maintenance, protection, safety, and prevention of accidents."