Environment Protection Act 2019

(1) A modified condition licence may be granted for a mining activity if the mining activity meets the risk criteria applying to the mining activity, but:

(a) the mining operator cannot comply with some of the standard conditions for the mining activity; or

(b) conditions are required to be imposed that modify the standard conditions; or

(c) additional conditions are required to appropriately manage the environmental impacts of the mining activity; or

(d) the standard conditions for the mining activity are amended under section 124W and the mining operator cannot comply with the amended standard conditions.

(b) the standard conditions applying to the mining activity subject to any modifications determined by the Minister to ensure that the environmental risks and impacts of the mining activity are appropriately managed; and

(c) a condition that the mining operator must provide to the Minister a mining security in the amounts or values and at the times required by the Minister by written notice to the mining operator; and

(d) a condition that the mining operator must pay the mining levy payable by the mining operator under the Legacy Mines Remediation Act; and

(3) The Minister may determine any modifications under subsection (2)(b) that the Minister thinks fit.

(4) If a standard condition that applies to a modified condition licence is amended, the modified condition licence is subject to the amended standard condition when the amendment takes effect to the extent that the amended condition is not inconsistent with the existing modifications in the licence.

(5) If a modified condition licence is granted in place of an existing standard condition licence, the standard condition licence is revoked.