Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 21A

21A Meaning of prescribed condition

(1) A
"prescribed condition" , for a small scale mining activity, is a condition prescribed under a regulation for the carrying out of the activity.

Example of a prescribed condition—

a condition about rehabilitating land

(2) It is also a
"prescribed condition" for carrying out a small scale mining activity that the holder of the mining tenure (a
"small scale mining tenure" ) for the activity must not carry out, or allow the carrying out of, the activity unless the holder has given a surety—

(a) of the amount prescribed by regulation; and

(b) in the form approved by the scheme manager under the Mineral and Energy Resources (Financial Provisioning) Act 2018 , section 56 .

(3) However, subsection (2) does not apply if the holder’s small scale mining tenure is a prospecting permit.