Conditions attached to prospecting licences, exploration licences and retention licences
103AG Conditions attached to prospecting licences, exploration licences and retention licences
In this section —
relevant licence means —
a prospecting licence; or
an exploration licence; or
a retention licence.
This section applies to an activity done on land the subject of a relevant licence using machinery to disturb the surface of the land for the purposes of, or in preparation for, prospecting or exploring for minerals.
It is a condition of every relevant licence that an activity that is an EMA must not be done by the holder of the relevant licence on land the subject of the relevant licence unless —
the holder has given an EMA notice in respect of the activity; or
the EMA is proposed in a programme of work and approved under section 103AK(1).
It is a condition of every relevant licence that an activity that is not an EMA must not be done by the holder of the relevant licence on land the subject of the relevant licence unless the activity is proposed in a programme of work and approved under section 103AK(1).
It is a condition of every relevant licence that, if an activity on land the subject of the relevant licence is proposed in a programme of work and approved under section 103AK(1), the holder of the relevant licence must not do the activity on the land otherwise than in accordance with the approved programme of work for the activity.
[Section 103AG inserted: No. 31 of 2022 s. 34.]
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