Western Australian Numbered Acts

MINING LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2014 (NO. 4 OF 2014) - SECT 7

7 .         Section 162 amended

        (1)         Delete section 162(2)(x) and insert:

                  (x)         authorise and regulate the copying, storage, making available for public inspection, release, publication and dissemination of information contained in a mining tenement document;

        (2)         Delete section 162(2a) and (3A) and insert:

        (3A)         Subsection (2)(x) applies to information irrespective of when the mining tenement document was made, lodged, given or provided (as the case may be).

        (3B)         In subsections (2) and (3A) —

        mining tenement document means any of the following —

            (a)         an application for a mining tenement;

            (b)         a document that accompanies, or is furnished in relation to, an application for a mining tenement;

            (c)         an agreement, claim, report, notice of objection, security, or any other document, in respect of a mining tenement;

            (d)         a document containing any other information supplied under this Act to the Minister, a warden or any official of the Department.