Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990

The Department Head must establish and maintain a mining register.

The mining register may be kept in electronic form.

The Department Head must, by any means he or she considers appropriate—

register the following documents—

licences;

instruments of refusal of applications for licences;

compensation agreements;

rehabilitation bonds;

consents given under section 45;

authorisations given under section 46;

approved work plans;

declared mine rehabilitation plans;

work authorities;

instruments of renewal of licences, including notice of decreased area and of any changed conditions;

instruments of refusal to renew licences;

instruments of variation of licences;

instruments of amalgamation of licences;

notices of surrender of licences;

instruments of cancellation of licences;

instruments of variation, suspension, revocation or addition of licence conditions;

approved instruments of transfer of licences;

instruments for creating, assigning or affecting interests in, or conferred by, licences (including mortgages);

instruments for the devolution of licences or interests in, or conferred by, licences;

instruments (including mortgages) for the termination or cancellation of interests in, or conferred by, licences;

written undertakings entered into under section 107;

determinations of the Tribunal or the Supreme Court as to the amount of compensation payable;

any other prescribed documents; and

record in the register the prescribed information contained in—

any document registered under paragraph (a); and

any other document that is required to be lodged under this Act; and

endorse on the document and in the register the date and time of registration.

The Department Head may—

approve forms of documents referred to in subsection (2)(a) for registration; and

register a document by registering either the original or a copy; and

determine the form of an extract from the register.

The Department Head may refuse to accept for registration any document referred to in subsection (2)(a) that does not contain the prescribed information or that is not in an approved form.

The Department Head may refuse to accept for registration an approved instrument of transfer if the proposed transferee has not paid all outstanding fees, bonds, royalties and rents in respect of the licence agreed to under section 33B.