Mining Amendment Regulations 2022 (WA)

30 June 2022 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3945

Mining Act 1978

Mining Amendment Regulations 2022

SL 2022/118

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations are the Mining Amendment Regulations 2022.

2.             Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a) regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these

regulations are published in the Gazette;

(b) the rest of the regulations — on the day on which the

Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2022

section 6 comes into operation.

3.             Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Mining Regulations 1981.

4.             Regulation 2 amended

In regulation 2 delete the definition of lawyer.

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5.             Regulation 128 amended

In regulation 128(1) delete “Legal Profession Act 2008” and

insert:

Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2022

section 133

6.             Schedule 4 amended

(1) Delete Schedule 4 clause 1 and insert:

1.              Terms used

In this Schedule —

counsel (C) means a legal practitioner, other than a senior
counsel, acting as a barrister;

junior legal practitioner (JLP) means a legal practitioner
who has been admitted to the Australian legal profession for
less than 5 years in any jurisdiction in Australia;

PL means a paralegal;

senior counsel (SC) means a legal practitioner who has been

appointed a Senior Counsel or Queen’s Counsel in an

Australian jurisdiction and whose appointment is afforded
recognition by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Western Australia;

senior legal practitioner (SLP) means a legal practitioner
who has been admitted to the Australian legal profession for
5 years or more in any jurisdiction in Australia.

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(2) In Schedule 4 clause 3:

(a) before “Legal Profession Act 2008” insert:

Legal Profession Uniform Law (WA) Part 4.3, the repealed

(b) in the Table delete “JL” (each occurrence) and insert:

JLP

(c) in the Table delete “SL” (each occurrence) and insert:

SLP

7.             Various references to “lawyer” amended

In the provisions listed in the Table:

(a) delete “lawyer” (each occurrence) and insert:

legal practitioner

(b) delete “lawyer” and insert:

legal practitioner

(c) delete “lawyers” and insert:

legal practitioners

(d) delete “Lawyer” (each occurrence) and insert:

Legal Practitioner

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(e) delete “lawyers” and insert:

legal practitioners

(f) delete “lawyer” (each occurrence) and insert:

legal practitioner

(g) delete “lawyer” (each occurrence) and insert:

legal practitioner

(h) delete “lawyer” and insert:

legal practitioner

Table

r. 122(1)	r. 127B(2) and (3)(a)
r. 127CB(3)	r. 140(2)(a)
r. 141(2)(a)	r. 149(2) and (3)(a)
r 150AB(1)(e), (2)(b) and (3)(b)	r. 150A(3)
r. 155(1)(a), (2) and (3)	r. 156(1)
r. 168A(1) and (2)	r. 168B(1)(a), (2), (3) and (4)
Sch. 1 Forms 16 to 18, 35A, 36,	Sch. 4 cl. 2 and 3
36A and 42

V. MOLAN, Clerk of the Executive Council.