396 (Quartsf u n t'l ANNO SEPTIMO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 51 of 1968 An Act to Provide for the Encouragement and Regulation of Mining within the State of Queensland ASSENTED TO 23RD DECEMBER, 1968] 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:- PART I-PRELIMINARY 1. Short title . This Act may be cited as the Mining Act 1968. 2. Commencement of Act. This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the Governor in Council by Proclamation published in the Gazette.
Mining Act 1968, No. 5 1 397 3. Arrangement of Act. This Act is divided into Parts, Divisions and a Schedule as follows:- PART I-PRELIMINARY; PART II-MEANING OF TERMS; PART III-MINING DISTRICTS AND MINING FIELDS; PART IV-AUTHORITIES CONFERRING RIGHTS TO MINE AND PROSPECT; Division I-Miner's Right; Division 1I-Authority to Prospect; Division III-Mining Lease; Division IV-Compensation for Damage to Improvements on Mining Tenements; PART V-MINING ON RESERVES, RESIDENCE AREAS, AND BUSINESS AREAS; PART VI-CONSTRUCTIONS AND CARRIAGE THROUGH, OVER, OR UNDER ALIEN LAND; PART VII-SLUDGE ABATEMENT; PART VIII-ROYALTIES; PART IX-ADMINISTRATION; Division I-Appointment of Officers; Division II-Wardens Courts; Division III-Special Powers of Wardens and Wardens Courts; Division IV-Appeals from Wardens Courts; PART X-GENERAL PROVISIONS; PART XI-REGULATIONS; SCHEDULE. 4. Repeal . Subject to section 5 of this Act the Acts set forth in the Schedule to this Act are repealed and in this Act are called the repealed Acts. The repeat of any of the repealed Acts shall not affect amendments made by that repealed Act to any Act which is not repealed by this Act. 5. Savings . (I) A goldfield or a mineral field constituted under the repealed Acts and subsisting at the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a mining field constituted under this Act and, unless the Governor in Council otherwise notifies, shall be called by the name assigned to it as a goldfield or, as the case may be, mineral field. A miner's right issued under the repealed Acts shall be deemed to be a miner's right issued under this Act and shall continue in force for the term it has yet to run at the date of commencement of this Act in accordance with its tenor. A consolidated miner's right issued under the repealed Acts shall continue in force for the term it has yet to run at the date of commencement of this Act in accordance with its tenor subject to the provisions of the repealed Acts which to that extent shall be deemed to continue in force. Where the holder of a miner's right or business licence issued under the repealed Acts is, at the date of commencement of this Act, exercising thereunder a right or privilege conferred on him by the repealed Acts
398 Mining Act 1968, No. 51 he shall, for so long…