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Mining Act 1992
32DProvisions relating to applications for low-impact licence
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#### 32D Provisions relating to applications for low-impact licence
32D Provisions relating to applications for low-impact licence
> > (1) A person may not be granted a low-impact exploration licence unless notice of the application for the licence has been served on all—
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> > > (a) registered native title bodies corporate, and
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> > > (b) registered native title claimants, and
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> > > (c) representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies,
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> > in relation to any of the land that will be affected by the proposed prospecting operations to be authorised by the licence.
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> > (2) The notice must contain a map or other description of the land over which the exploration licence is sought and a description of the kind of prospecting operations that may be authorised by the licence.
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> > (3) An applicant may request the Minister to grant a low-impact exploration licence either at the time the application for a licence is made or at any later time before the grant of the licence.
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> > (4) The regulations may make other provision for or with respect to the making and grant of applications for low-impact exploration licences.
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> > (5) In this section, application includes tender.
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> **ss 32A–32E:** Ins 1998 No 88, Sch 5 \[1\].