Offshore Minerals Act 1999
218Minister may invite applications for mining licence over tender blocks
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218 Minister may invite applications for mining licence over tender blocks
218 Minister may invite applications for mining licence over tender blocks
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may invite applications for the grant of a mining licence over reserved blocks.
(2) Applications may be invited for a licence covering a group of reserved blocks only if the group forms a discrete area.
(3) The Minister is to invite applications by publishing a tender block licence notice for the licence in the Gazette.
Note 1—
A mining licence may cover not more than 20 tender blocks (see section 219).
Note 2—
A mining licence might be made available by a tender block licence notice if a mineral deposit in the area had already been identified and sufficient information was already available to justify the issue of a mining licence rather than an exploration licence.