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SURFACE COAL MINING PROHIBITION (LAKE MACQUARIE) BILL 2009





                                 New South Wales




Surface Coal Mining Prohibition (Lake
Macquarie) Bill 2009


Contents

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                   1   Name of Act                                                   2
                   2   Commencement                                                  2
                   3   Definitions                                                   2
                   4   Prohibition of surface coal mining in Lake Macquarie City     2




b2009-115-37.d08
                           New South Wales




Surface Coal Mining Prohibition (Lake
Macquarie) Bill 2009
No     , 2009


A Bill for

An Act to prohibit surface mining of coal in the local government area of Lake
Macquarie City.
Clause 1          Surface Coal Mining Prohibition (Lake Macquarie) Bill 2009




The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:                                                 1

 1    Name of Act                                                                          2

               This Act is the Surface Coal Mining Prohibition (Lake Macquarie)            3
               Act 2009.                                                                   4

 2    Commencement                                                                         5

               This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act.                       6

 3    Definitions                                                                          7

               In this Act:                                                                8
               surface coal mining means the operation of a coal mine that is not an       9
               underground mine.                                                          10
               underground mine means a coal mine in which persons are employed           11
               beneath the earth's surface when the mine is being worked and in which     12
               the working environment is completely enclosed by the geologic             13
               medium.                                                                    14

 4    Prohibition of surface coal mining in Lake Macquarie City                           15

         (1)   Surface coal mining is prohibited in the local government area of Lake     16
               Macquarie City.                                                            17

         (2)   Subsection (1) does not apply to the area identified as "existing          18
               Westside open cut mine" shown at the commencement of this section          19
               on the map marked "State Environmental Planning Policy (Mining,            20
               Petroleum Production and Extractive Industries) 2007--Map 1--Lake          21
               Macquarie" (being a map that is approved and signed by the Minister        22
               for Planning and copies of which are deposited in the head office of the   23
               Department of Planning and publicly available on that Department's         24
               website).                                                                  25

         (3)   This Act is to be construed as if it formed part of the Environmental      26
               Planning and Assessment Act 1979.                                          27




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Surface Coal Mining Prohibition (Lake Macquarie) Bill 2009    Clause 4




       (4)   This Act applies despite any other Act or law (including any   1
             environmental planning instrument) to the contrary.            2




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