220Opal prospecting areas

220 Opal prospecting areas

220 Opal prospecting areas

(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, constitute any prescribed land as an opal prospecting area and may, by the same or a subsequent order so published, name the area and fix its boundaries.

(2) For the purposes of this section, prescribed land is—

(a) any land held under a lease or licence for grazing purposes under the Crown Land Management Act 2016, or

(b) Crown land other than—

(i) land that is held under a lease or licence (not being a lease or licence referred to in paragraph (a)) under the Crown Land Management Act 2016, or

(ii) land in respect of which a Crown land manager has been appointed or that is under the control of a council pursuant to section 48 of the Local Government Act 1993, or

(iii) land that is subject to an easement, or

(iv) any land of a class or description prescribed by the regulations.

(3) In subsection (2)—

Crown land has the same meaning as in the Crown Land Management Act 2016.

licence includes a permissive occupancy.

s 220: Am 1999 No 43, Sch 1 [53] [54]; 2017 No 17, Sch 2.12 [7].