Mining Act 1992 Mining (General) Amendment (Geothermal Substances) Regulation 1998 (1998-261) [GG No 81 of 22.5.1998, p 3597] (NSW)

1998 No 261

New South Wales

Mining (General) Amendment

(Geothermal Substances) Regulation

1998

under the

Mining Act 1992

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Mining Act 1992.

BOB MARTIN, M.P.,

Minister for Mineral Resources

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to revise the definition of mineral for the purposes of the Mining Act 1992. Under the Mining (General) Regulation 1997, mineral includes a geothermal substance. This Regulation replaces the definition of geothermal substance, so that geothermal substances include all substances occurring naturally or artificially underground that are heated by the natural processes of the earth to a temperature in excess of 100 degrees Celsius (excluding petroleum. coal, oil shale, uranium and substances

already considered to be minerals).
This Regulation is made under the Mining Act 1992, including the definition
of mineral i n the Dictionary to that Act and section 388 (the general
regulation-making power).

1998 No 261

Clause 1 Mining (General) Amendment (Geothermal Substances) Regulation 1998

Mining (General) Amendment (Geothermal

Substances) Regulation 1998

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Mining (General) Amendment

(Geothermal Substances) Regulation 1998.

2 Amendment of Mining (General) Regulation 1997

The Mining (General	Regulation 1997 is amended as set out in
Schedule	1 .

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

Schedule 1 Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clause 4 Meaning of “mineral”

Omit clause 4 (2). Insert instead:

(2) A reference in Schedule 1 or 2 to a geothermal substance is a reference to any substance occurring naturally or artificially underground that is heated by the natural processes of the earth to a temperature in excess of 100 degrees Celsius (other than any other substance referred to in those Schedules, and other than petroleum, coal, oil shale and uranium).