930GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 March 2021

930 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 March 2021 (2) Where a licensee has given written notice to the local government of the intention to permanently cease carrying on an extractive industry on the site to which the licence applies the licence is deemed to have expired on the date such cessation is so notified. (3) The temporary or permanent cessation of the carrying on of an extractive industry on a site or the deemed expiration or cancellation of a licence does not entitle the licensee to any refund of any licence fee. 7.4. Works To Be Carried Out On Cessation Of Operations Where the carrying on of an extractive industry on the site permanently ceases or on the expiration or cancellation of the licence applicable to the site, whichever first occurs, the licensee shall, as well as complying with the provisions of clause 7.3— (a) restore and reinstate the excavated site in accordance with the proposals approved by the local government or in such other manner as the local government may subsequently agree in writing with the licensee; (b) ensure that any face permitted to remain upon the excavation site is left safe with all loose materials removed and where the excavation site is— (i) sand, the sides are sloped to a batter of not more than 1:3 (vertical:horizontal); and (ii) limestone or material other than sand, the sides are sloped to a batter which, in the opinion of the local government, would enable the site to be left in a stable condition; (c) ensure that the agreed floor level of the excavation is graded to an even surface or is otherwise in accordance with the rehabilitation and decommissioning programme approved by the local government; (d) ensure that all stockpiles or dumps of stone, sand or other materials are left so that no portion of that material can escape onto land not owned or occupied by the licensee nor into any stream, watercourse or drain that is not wholly situated within the land owned or occupied by the licensee; (e) erect retaining walls where necessary to prevent subsidence of land in the vicinity of any excavation; (f) remove from the site all buildings, plant and equipment erected, installed or used for or in relation to the carrying on of an extractive industry on the site and fill all holes remaining after such removal to the level of the surrounding ground and compact such filled holes sufficiently to prevent settling; and (g) break up, scarify, cover with topsoil and plant with grass, trees and shrubs all parts of the site where buildings, plant and equipment were erected or installed and all areas which were used for stockpiling unless otherwise specified under this local law. Penalty: $5,000 for each offence, and if the offence is of a continuing nature, to a daily penalty not 8.1 When the local government makes a decision as to whether it will— (a) grant a person a licence under this local law; or (b) renew, vary, transfer or cancel a licence that a person has under this local law, the provisions of Division 1 of Part 9 of the Act and regulation 33 of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996 shall apply to that decision. PART 9—MODIFIED PENALTIES 9. 1. Modified Penalties (1) An offence against a clause specified in the Schedule is a prescribed offence for the purposes of in the Schedule. 9. 2. Forms For the purposes of this local law— (a) the form of the infringement notice given under section 9.16 of the Act is that of Form 2 in Schedule 1 of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996; and (b) the form of the notice sent under section 9.20 of the Act withdrawing an infringement notice is that of Form 3 in Schedule 1 of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996. ————