13Activities taken not to be prospecting or mining—the Act, s 11A

13 Activities taken not to be prospecting or mining—the Act, s 11A

13 Activities taken not to be prospecting or mining—the Act, s 11A

(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare that a specified activity, or a specified class of activity, is not prospecting or mining for the purposes of the Act.

(2) For the Act, section 11A, an activity is declared not to be prospecting or mining for the purposes of the Act if the activity is specified in Schedule 3.

(3) A person who carries out an activity that is declared not to be prospecting or mining must pay a royalty to the Crown, in accordance with the Act, for publicly owned minerals recovered as a consequence of the carrying out of the activity.

(4) Subclause (3) does not apply to an activity specified in Schedule 3, clause 4.

cl 13: Subst 2022 (802), Sch 1[8].