Terms used
3 Terms used
In these regulations —
area, of a mining authorisation, means the area of land to which the mining authorisation relates;
assessment day, in relation to a mining authorisation and a year, means the day in that year that is nominated by the holder of the mining authorisation under regulation 5(1) in assessment information given to the CEO for that year;
earthworks —
means any operations to move or shape land; and
includes the following —
excavating or filling;
forming embankments or slopes;
operations to control wind or water erosion of land;
battering, contouring, reshaping, ripping, capping or rock armouring land;
EMA notice has the meaning given in the Mining Act 1978 section 103AF(1);
exploration operations means operations under a mining authorisation that are —
directly related to exploration or prospecting for minerals; and
the subject of a programme of work or an EMA notice;
land under rehabilitation, in relation to a mining authorisation, means land —
on which earthworks have been completed in accordance with the closure obligations that apply to the mining authorisation (whether under a condition of the mining authorisation, a programme of work, a mining proposal, an EMA notice or otherwise); and
that is not rehabilitated land;
member means a member of the Panel;
minerals‑in‑brine means potash, halite or magnesium salt that is dissolved in brine;
mining proposal, in relation to a mining authorisation that is a mining lease granted under the Mining Act 1978, means —
a mining proposal that accompanied the application for the mining lease under section 74(1)(ca) of that Act; or
a mining proposal for which there is approval as described in section 82A(2)(b) of that Act;
Panel means the Mining Rehabilitation Advisory Panel established by section 33(1) of the Act;
programme of work, in relation to a mining authorisation, means a programme of work that is approved, or with which the holder of the authorisation is required to comply, under the Mining Act 1978 or a programme of work that is otherwise lodged with the department in connection with the mining authorisation;
rehabilitated land, in relation to a mining authorisation, means land on which rehabilitation has been completed in accordance with the closure obligations that apply to the mining authorisation (whether under a condition of the mining authorisation, a programme of work, a mining proposal, an EMA notice or otherwise);
rehabilitation liability category means a category specified in column 2 of the Table to Schedule 1 clause 1;
rehabilitation work has the meaning given in section 10(1) of the Act;
year means a period of 12 months ending on 30 June.
[Regulation 3 amended: SL 2021/63 r. 4; SL 2025/156 r. 6.]
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