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Mineral Resources Act 1989
sec.6CWhat is carrying out improvement restoration
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### sec.6C What is carrying out improvement restoration
To carry out improvement restoration , for a mining tenement, means to repair any damage caused by an activity under the tenement to all pre-existing improvements on, or attached to, the area of the tenement by—
restoring them to the same, or substantially the same, condition they were in before the damage happened; or
replacing them with another improvement in the condition mentioned in paragraph (a) .
For subsection (1) , damage does not include damage to which a requirement to rehabilitate or remediate under the Environmental Protection Act applies.
s 6C ins 2000 No. 64 s 63
amd 2012 No. 20 s 125 sch 1
(sec.6C-ssec.1) To carry out improvement restoration , for a mining tenement, means to repair any damage caused by an activity under the tenement to all pre-existing improvements on, or attached to, the area of the tenement by— restoring them to the same, or substantially the same, condition they were in before the damage happened; or replacing them with another improvement in the condition mentioned in paragraph (a) .
(sec.6C-ssec.2) For subsection (1) , damage does not include damage to which a requirement to rehabilitate or remediate under the Environmental Protection Act applies.
- (a) restoring them to the same, or substantially the same, condition they were in before the damage happened; or
- (b) replacing them with another improvement in the condition mentioned in paragraph (a) .