Mining Act 1978

The Minister may impose a condition on a mining tenement for the following purposes —

preventing, reducing or remediating injury to land the subject of the mining tenement or other land;

preventing or reducing the impact of mining on the statutory or public purposes for which land to which section 24 or 24A applies is reserved or managed, or remediating such land.

The condition may be imposed —

in the case of a prospecting licence or a miscellaneous licence —

by the mining registrar, or the warden, on the granting of the licence; or

by the Minister on the granting of the licence or at any subsequent time;

in any other case, by the Minister on the granting of the mining tenement or at any subsequent time.

A condition imposed under subsection (1) may be cancelled or varied by the Minister at any time.

The condition has effect for all purposes, whether or not the condition is endorsed on the mining tenement, on notice of the imposition of the condition being given in writing to the holder of the mining tenement.

Without limiting subsection (1), a condition may be imposed for the purpose of preventing mining operations being carried out within a specified distance of the natural surface of the land the subject of a mining tenement.