(1) The application must be dealt with as if—(a) the repealed miners homestead Acts had not been repealed; and(b) the application were made under the Mining Titles Freeholding Act 1980 ; and(c) the lease were a miners homestead.
(2) However, if a mining titles freeholding lease would have issued under the repealed miners homestead Acts a pre-Wolfe freeholding lease is to be issued instead.
(3) A perpetual town lease (non-competitive lease) that was previously a miners homestead is to be treated as a miners homestead for the purposes only of an application under subsection (1) .