Mineral Resources Act 1989

To carry out improvement restoration, for a mining tenement, means to repair any damage caused by an activity under the tenement to all pre-existing improvements on, or attached to, the area of the tenement by—

restoring them to the same, or substantially the same, condition they were in before the damage happened; or

replacing them with another improvement in the condition mentioned in paragraph (a).

For subsection (1), damage does not include damage to which a requirement to rehabilitate or remediate under the Environmental Protection Act applies.