Offence to carry out exploration or mining of coal seam gas
8AC Offence to carry out exploration or mining of coal seam gas
A person must not carry out exploration for, or carry out mining of, coal seam gas on any land.
Penalty: In the case of a corporation, 1000 penalty units.
In any other case, 200 penalty units.
Default penalty:
In the case of a corporation, 20 penalty units.
In any other case, 10 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who is the holder of an exploration licence, a mining licence or a retention licence and who—
in the course of carrying out exploration for, or mining of, a mineral other than coal seam gas in accordance with that licence, incidentally discovers or mines coal seam gas; and
reports the discovery of coal seam gas in accordance with section 113A.
S. 8AD inserted by No. 8/2017 s. 4.
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