Validation (Mining Tenements) Act 1987 (NT)

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

Validation (Mining Tenements) act 1987

As in force at 28 August 1987

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As in force at 28 August 1987

Validation (Mining Tenements) act 1987

An Act to ensure the validity of certain mining tenement granted under the Mining Act 1986

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Validation (Mining Tenements) Act 1987.

2Validation of certain mining tenements

• (1)

  For the avoidance of doubt:

  • (a)

    a mining tenement within the meaning of the Mining Act 1986 granted or purported to be granted under that Act before the commencement of this Act is declared to have been validly granted notwithstanding that, in respect of that grant or purported grant, a recommendation of a warden may not have been made, transmitted or considered; and

  • (b)

    a mineral claim within the meaning of the Mining Act 1986 granted or purported to be granted under that Act before the commencement of this Act is declared to have been validly granted to an applicant who was not in breach of that Act or the Regulations made under that Act notwithstanding that the Minister or the delegate of the Minister, before granting or purporting to grant that mineral claim, may not have satisfied himself of that requirement,

  as required by that Act.

• (2)

  A mineral claim within the meaning of the Mining Act 1986 granted or purported to be granted under that Act before the commencement of this Act in respect of an application for a mineral claim or dredging claim referred to in section 191(18) of that Act, deemed, by virtue of that subsection to be an application for a mineral claim under that Act, is declared to be not invalid by reason only that the application or the grant or purported grant of that mineral claim was in respect of an area of land greater than that permitted by that Act or that the Minister or the delegate of the Minister may not have satisfied himself as required by section 86 of that Act.

ENDNOTES

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  KEY

Key to abbreviations

 

amd = amended od = order

app = appendix om = omitted

bl = by-law pt = Part

ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule

cl = clause rem = remainder

div = Division renum = renumbered

exp = expires/expired rep = repealed

f = forms s = section

Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule

hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision

ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation

lt = long title sub = substituted

nc = not commenced

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  LIST OF LEGISLATION

Validation (Mining Tenements) Act 1987 (Act No. 35, 1987)
Assent date	28 August 2987
Commenced	28 August 2987

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  GENERAL AMENDMENTS

General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) to: s 2.