Mining Act 1992 - Mining (General) Amendment (Land Fill Excavations) Regulation 1999 (1999-657) [GG No 141 of 17.12.1999, p 11927] (NSW)

1999 No 657

Mining (General) Amendment (Land New South Wales

Fill Excavations) Regulation 1999

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.

The Hon EDWARD OBEID, M.L.C.,

Minister for Mineral Resources

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to declare land fill excavation carried out on specified land at Badgerys Creek as an activity taken not to be prospecting or mining for the purposes of the Mining Act 1992. However, royalty will be payable on any publicly owned minerals recovered in the course of that activity. This Regulation is made under the Mining Act 1992, including section 388 (the general power to make regulations) and section 11A.

Published in Gazette No 141 of 17 December 1999, page 11927	Page 1
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Clause 1	Mining (General) Amendment (Land Fill Excavations) Regulation 1999

Mining (General) Amendment (Land Fill
Excavations) Regulation 1999

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Mining (General) Amendment (Land Fill
Excavations) Regulation 1999.

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.

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Mining (General) Amendment (Land Fill Excavations) Regulation 1999

Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Clause 10A Activities taken not to be prospecting or mining

Insert after clause 10A (1):

(1A) For the purposes of section 11A of the Act, any activity carried out on the following land by Pacific Waste Management Pty Ltd (ACN 002 902 560) for or in connection with the use of the land for waste disposal (including the extraction of material for the purpose of recovering minerals from the material) is taken not to be prospecting or mining:

The land within Reserve No 3228 (constituted under section 367 of the Act by an order published in Gazette No 141 of 17 November 1995 at page 7866), being land situated at Badgerys Creek and having an area of approximately 56.7 hectares.

[2]      Clause 10A (2)

Insert “or (1A)” after “subclause (1)”.

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