41Requirement for weekly survey report

41 Requirement for weekly survey report

(1) For the purposes of section 179(c) of the Act, the holder of an authority who undertakes a geophysical, geological or geochemical survey in the authority area must give the Minister a weekly survey report as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each week of the survey.

Note

Under section 179 of the Act, a person who contravenes this subregulation is liable to a penalty not exceeding 60 penalty units.

(2) A weekly survey report under subregulation (1) must include—

(a) the name of the survey; and

(b) the authority under which the survey is being conducted; and

(c) the name of the authority holder; and

(d) the name of the contractor conducting the survey; and

(e) the name and number of the vehicle or aircraft conducting the survey; and

(f) a map showing where the survey was conducted during the week; and

(g) the number of kilometres or square kilometres for which data was acquired during the week; and

(h) the number of points at which data was acquired during the week; and

(i) the number of lines of data acquired during the week; and

(j) the amount of downtime during the week due to equipment problems, bad weather or other circumstances; and

(k) the percentage of the survey completed at the end of the week.

(3) In this regulation—

week of the survey means—

(a) the week starting on the first day of data acquisition for the survey; and

(b) each subsequent week.