Mining Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2004 (WA)

20 August 2004 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3619

MP301*

Mining Act 1978

Mining Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2004

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Mining Amendment
Regulations (No. 3) 2004.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation on 1 July 2005.

3.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Mining
Regulations 1981*.

[* Reprinted as at 25 July 2002.

38 cents;

For amendments to 8 July 2004 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2003, Table 4, p. 250, and
Gazette 25 June 2004.]

4.            Regulation 86 amended

(1) After regulation 86(2) the following subregulations are

inserted —

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(2a) In the Table to this regulation —

"Amount A" means —

(a)	for the year 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, 34 cents;
(b)	for the year 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007,

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(c)	for the year 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008, 42 cents;
(d)	for the year 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009, 46 cents;
(e)	for the year 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010, 50 cents;
(f)	5

for the year period beginning on for each succeeding 5 year period (the "relevant period"), the amount calculated under subregulation (2b) or provided for in subregulation (2d), as the case requires;

"Amount B" means -

(a)	for the year 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, 56 cents;
(b)	for the year 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007, 62 cents;
(c)	for the year 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008, 68 cents;
(d)	for the year 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009, 74 cents;
(e)	for the year 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010, 80 cents;
(f)	5

for the year period beginning on for each succeeding 5 year period (the "relevant period"), the amount calculated under subregulation (2b) or provided for in subregulation (2d), as the case requires.

(2b) Subject to subregulations (2c) and (2d), the amount for

the relevant period is the amount calculated using the

formula -

R=Cx PPI

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where -

R is the amount;

C is—

(a) for the purposes of Amount A, 50 cents;

(b) for the purposes of Amount B, 80 cents;

PPI is the Non-Metallic Mineral Products Price
Index number, for the quarter ending on the last
31 March before the beginning of the relevant
period, published by the Australian Bureau of
Statistics in Catalogue 6427.0 Producer Price
Indexes, Australia.

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(2c)	If the calculation provided for in subregulation (2b) does not result in an amount of whole cents the amount is to be rounded down to the nearest whole cent and the rounded amount is to be regarded as the amount calculated under that subregulation.
(2d)	If the amount calculated under subregulation (2b) is less than the amount that applied immediately before the beginning of the relevant period (the "existing amount"), the amount for the relevant period is the existing amount.

(2) The Table to regulation 86 is amended as follows:

(a) by deleting the items relating to —

(i)     agricultural limestone;

(ii)     construction limestone; and

(iii)     metallurgical limestone;

(b) by deleting the item relating to limestone and inserting

the following item instead -

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Limestone (including

limesands and shellsands) —

used for agricultural or Amount A
construction purposes
or as a neutralising

agent

used for metallurgical
purposes Amount B

I,. ,

(c) in column 1 by deleting "30 cents" in each place where

it occurs and inserting instead —

(d) by column 1 by deleting "50 cents" in each place where	" Amount A ";
it occurs and inserting instead —
" Amount B ".

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.