Mining Act 1992 Mining (General) Amendment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulation 1997 (1997-103) [GG No 26 of 14.3.1997, p 1476] (NSW)

1997 No 103

New South Wales

Mining (General) Amendment

(Miscellaneous Provisions)

Regulation 1997*

under the

Mining Act 1992

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Counc	il, has
made the following Regulation under the Mining Act 1992.
BOB MARTIN, M.P., Minister for Mineral Resources
Explanatory note
The objects of this Regulation are:
(a)	to prescribe the manner in which land should be described in an application for a mining lease that specifies a mining purpose or mining purposes, and
(b)	to provide for the form of a royalty officer’s certificate of identification, and
(c)	to prescribe leucoxene, magnesium salts, potassium salts and sodium salts as minerals for the purposes of the Act, leucoxene to be a Group

1 mineral (elemental metallic minerals) and magnesium, potassium

and sodium salts to be Group 2 minerals (elemental non-metallic
minerals).

* The regulation (statutory rule) appointed 8 March 1997 as the date of its commencement. Pursuant to section 39 (2A) of the Interpretation Act 1987, the regulation is not invalid merely because the regulation was published in the Gazette after the day on which one or more of its provisions is or are expressed to take effect, but provides, in that case, for that or those provisions to take effect from the day on which the regulation is published in the Gazette, instead of from the earlier day.

Published in Gazette No 26 of 14 March 1997, page 1476 Page 1

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Explanatory note

The amendments made by this Regulation are made in connection with amendments to sections 51 and 248 of the Act, and to Schedules 1 and 2 to the Mining (General) Regulation 1992, effected by the Mining Legislation Amendment Act 1996.

This Regulation is made under the Mining Act 1992, including section 388 (the general regulation making power), sections 51 and 248 and the Dictionary at the end of the Act.

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Mining (General) Amendment (Miscellaneous

Provisions) Regulation 1997

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Mining (General) Amendment

(Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulation 1997.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 8 March 1997.

3 Amendment of Mining (General) Regulation 1992

The Mining (General) Regulation 1992 is amended as set out in

Schedule 1.

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Schedule 1	Amendments
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 3)

[1]      Clause 14 Sec 51 : applications

Insert “and (5) (a)” after “section 51 (3) (a)” in clause 14 (2).

1. Clause 24 Sec 159: records

   Insert after the fifth dot point in clause 24 (1) (b):

• the mining purpose or mining purposes to which the authority relates (in the case of a mining lease granted in respect of a mining purpose or mining purposes)

1. Clause 50 Sec 248: certificates of authority

Insert “and a royalty officer’s certificate of authority is to be in Form
1A” after “Form 1”.

[4]         Schedule 1 Minerals

Insert in alphabetical order:

leucoxene
magnesium salts
potassium salts
sodium salts

[5]        Schedule 2 Groups of minerals

Insert in alphabetical order in Group 1 (Elemental minerals
(metallics)):

leucoxene

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Amendments Schedule 1

[6]        Schedule 2

Insert in alphabetical order in Group 2 (Elemental minerals
(non-metallics)):

magnesium salts
potassium salts
sodium salts

[7]      Schedule 7 Forms

Insert after Form 1 :

Form 1A Certificate of authority

(Clause 50)

(Mining Act 1992)

This certifies that ............................................................

(insert name of royalty officer)

whose photograph and signature appear below, is a royalty

officer appointed under the Mining Act 1992.

..................................................................

(signature of royalty officer)

photograph

here) ..................................................................

(Minister for Mineral Resources)

The royalty officer named above is authorised to exercise the following powers:

(a)	to enter any premises occupied by the holder of an authority or mineral claim,
(b)	to inspect, and take extracts from, any documents that are found on those premises and that appear to the royalty officer to relate to minerals recovered under the authority

or mineral claim,

(c) to direct the person in charge of any such premises to provide the royalty officer with all reasonable facilities and assistance.