Mineral Resources Act 1989

This section applies to an application for the granting of an exploration permit.

The chief executive must ask the applicant to nominate which of the following the applicant now seeks to be granted—

a low impact exploration permit under part 15;

a high impact exploration permit under part 15, for the granting of which part 15, division 4 applies.

If the applicant nominates a low impact exploration permit, subsection (4) applies to the giving of the application notice under section 486, instead of 486(2).

The notice must be given no earlier than the notification commencement day for the application, and no later than—

2 months after the notification commencement day for the application; or

if, under section 487, the mining registrar has given a direction for the giving of a new written notice—the end of the period nominated in the direction.

If the applicant nominates a high impact exploration permit, and part 17, division 4 is to be applied to the granting of the permit, subsection (8) applies, instead of section 524(2).

For applying section 652, the written notice must be given under section 652(1), and the public notice must be published under section 652(2), no earlier than the notification commencement day, and the following period is substituted for the periods mentioned in section 652(3)(b)(i), that is, the period of 4 months after the notification commencement day.