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### sch.8A-sec.1 Definitions for schedule
In this schedule—
available for improvement , in relation to land in an improvement area for a non-use management area, means land in the improvement area that is not being mined, other than land to which any of the following applies—
the land is being used for operating infrastructure or machinery for mining, including, for example, a dam or water storage facility;
the land is identified in the PRCP schedule or the application for an environmental authority relating to the schedule as containing a probable or proved ore reserve that is to be mined within 10 years after the land would otherwise have become available for improvement;
the land is required for the mining of a probable or proved ore reserve mentioned in paragraph (b) .
improvement area , for a non-use management area, means an area of land in the non-use management area to which a management milestone relates.
milestone criteria , for a management milestone or a rehabilitation milestone, means requirements that must be met to achieve the milestone.
mined see section 126D (6) of the Act .
rehabilitation area , for land the subject of a post-mining land use, means an area of the land to which a rehabilitation milestone for the post-mining use relates.
sufficient improvement , of a non-use management area, means the last management milestone for the area has been achieved.
sch 8A s 1 ins 2019 SL No. 198 s 14
- (a) the land is being used for operating infrastructure or machinery for mining, including, for example, a dam or water storage facility;
- (b) the land is identified in the PRCP schedule or the application for an environmental authority relating to the schedule as containing a probable or proved ore reserve that is to be mined within 10 years after the land would otherwise have become available for improvement;
- (c) the land is required for the mining of a probable or proved ore reserve mentioned in paragraph (b) .