Mining Act 1973 Regulation relating to fees (1991-390) [GG No 110 of 26.7.1991] (NSW)

1991—No. 390

MINING ACT 1973—REGULATION

(Relating to fees)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 110 of 26 July 1991]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Mining Act 1973, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

I. R. CAUSLEY

Minister for Natural Resources.

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 1st August, 1991.

Amendment

2. The Mining Regulations 1974 are amended by omitting Schedule 1

and by inserting instead the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE 1

(See Regulation 53)

Fees $

For issue of a personal fossicking licence, (not being a personal fossicking licence endorsed for use by a person who is in receipt of:

(a) a pension under Part IV or V, or an allowance under Part VI, of the Social Security Act 1947 of the Commonwealth; or

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Fees $

(b)	a class B widow’s pension under Schedule 1B of the Social Security Act 1947 of the Commonwealth; or
(c)	a veteran’s service pension, a wife’s service pension or a carer’s service pension under Part III of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth,
and who is the holder of a pensioner health benefits card issued by the Commonwealth Department of Social Security) ..........................................................	2.50
For issue of a family fossicking licence ..................	5.00
For issue of a designated group fossicking licence	10.00
On lodgment of objection to a proposal to constitute
Crown lands as an opal prospecting area ..................	12.50
For issue of an opal prospecting licence ...................	150.00
For registration of a claim and for registration of a
person as the holder of that claim ............................	25.00
For renewal of registration of a claim .......................	50.00
For renewal of registration of residence area or
business area ............................................................ For registration of transfer of a claim .......................	50.00
50.00
For registration of devolution of a title to a claim	25.00
For noting a change of name of the registered holder of
a claim, for each claim ............................................	25.00
On application for amalgamation of a claim, for each claim amalgamated (claims already amalgamated being regarded as one claim) .....................................	25.00
On application for suspension of conditions of a claim,
for each claim .............................................................	25.00

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Fees $

For grant of a permit to enter Crown lands ..............	25.00
On application for an exploration licence ..................	100.00 (plus $19.50 for

each unit

comprised
in the area
applied

for)

On application for renewal of an exploration licence 100.00 (plus
$19.50 for

each unit

comprised
in the area
applied

for)

On application for a mining lease .................................	1500.00
On application for appointment of an arbitrator in
default of agreement ............................................... On application for a mining purposes lease ..............	150.00

1500.00

On application for renewal of a mining purposes lease,

for each lease ......................................................... 800.00

On application for renewal of a mining lease, for each

lease ........................................................................	800.00
On application for approval of a transfer of an authority, including a transfer of part of a mining lease or mining purposes lease, for each authority	250.00
On application for approval for an instrument creating
an interest in an authority, for each authority .... On application by a person on whom the rights of the registered holder of an authority have devolved by operation of law, to have the person’s name recorded as the registered holder of the authority, for each	250.00

authority, ................................................................ 50.00

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Fees $

For noting a change of name of the registered holder of

an authority, for each authority .................................... On lodgment of caveat ...............................................	50.00
50.00
On application for aggregation of conditions in leases, for each lease containing a condition to be aggregated (ignoring, where 2 or more of those conditions are already the subject of an aggregation, any more than 1 of the leases containing the conditions the subject of that aggregation) ............	50.00
On application for suspension of conditions of an
authority, for each authority ..................................... On lodgment of objection to the grant of suspension of	50.00
conditions of an authority ........................................ On lodgment of objection to the grant of a mining	25.00
lease or a mining purposes lease ............................ On application for a licence under section 173 of the Act to enter land and treat or remove tailings, ore or minerals ...................................................................	108.00

1500.00

On application for a licence under section 174 of the Act to enter land for the purpose of laying pipes, etc. .....................................................................................	1500.00
For search as to any claim or authority or application	25.00 (plus
for authority, for each title or application involved	$2.00 for each dealing affecting
the claim
or authority )

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Fees $

For search as to any private or Crown lands affected 50.00 for

by an authority or application for an authority ......... the first

hour	or
part of the first hour (Plus
$12.50 for
each	15

minutes, or

part	of
each	15
minutes,
after	the
first hour)

For any thematic information search of authority or 50.00 for

application records ................................................ the first

hour or

part of the first hour (plus

$12.50 for

each 15

minutes, or

part	of
each	15
minutes,
after	the

first hour)

For copies of or extract from any record:

(a)	where the copy or extract is prepared by a
photocopying machine process, for each page 0.20
(b)	where a diagram, or any hatching, colouring or other matter is to be added, for each hour or part of an hour involved .......................................... 30.00

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Regulation is to amend Schedule 1 to the Mining Regulations

1974:

(a) to increase the prescribed fees in respect of some of the matters referred to in that Schedule; and

(b) to prescribe fees for thematic searches of records.