Conditions of mining lease
80 Conditions of mining lease
The Minister may grant an application for a lease subject to any conditions the Minister considers appropriate.
If a lease is held by 2 or more persons, those persons are jointly and severally liable for complying with the conditions of the lease.
The Minister may vary the conditions of the lease by rescinding, adding, substituting or amending a condition.
The Minister may vary the mineral category or categories to which the lease relates by rescinding, adding, substituting or amending a category or categories.
The department or authority responsible for the Water Management Act 1999 is to ensure, as far as practicable, that a lessee has sufficient access under that Act to water for the purposes of the lease.
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