5CTemporary prohibition on tenement applications in respect of Mitchell Plateau area

##### 5C. Temporary prohibition on tenement applications in respect of Mitchell Plateau area (1) In this section — relevant area means the Mitchell Plateau area or that area modified to the extent necessary to reflect any changes to the boundaries of land contiguous to that area resulting from survey or cadastral information. (2) Despite anything in the *Mining Act 1978*, a tenement application cannot be made during the designated period in respect of land wholly or partly within the Mitchell Plateau area. (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the designated period is the period — (a) beginning on the day on which the *Alumina Refinery (Mitchell Plateau) Agreement (Termination) Act 2015* section 6 comes into operation; and (b) ending on the day fixed under subsection (4). (4) When the Minister is satisfied that the relevant area has been reserved under the *Land Administration Act 1997* Part 4 for the purposes of a national park and classified as a class A reserve under that Part, the Minister must, by notice published in the *Gazette*, fix a day for the purposes of subsection (3)(b). (5) The day fixed must be the day after the day on which the notice is published in the *Gazette*. [Section 5C inserted: No. 31 of 2015 s. 6.]