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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Permits, access to land, and title notations - Surveys

42A: Authorisation of geophysical surveys on adjacent land

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"Getting permission to do surveys on land next to your mining area"

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The Minister can give you permission to do geophysical surveys on land next to the land you already have a permit for. The Minister can add conditions to this permission. You can only get this permission if you already have a permit to explore for minerals in the area. The permission you get is like a permit, but it only lets you do geophysical surveys, which means you can't do any other activities on the land.

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Permits, access to land, and title notations: Surveys

42AAuthorisation of geophysical surveys on adjacent land

  1. The Minister may, subject to such conditions as the Minister thinks fit to impose, grant written authorisation to a permit holder to carry out geophysical surveys on land adjacent to the land to which the permit (permit A) relates.

  2. Subsection (1) does not apply if another permit or existing privilege (permit B) gives the holder of permit B the exclusive right to prospect for the same mineral in the adjacent land.

  3. An authorisation granted under this section—

  4. is subject to the provisions of this Act as if the authorisation were a permit of the same type as the permit held by the permit holder and referred to in subsection (1); but
    1. does not authorise any activity other than the carrying out of geophysical surveys.

      Notes
      • Section 42A: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 139).
      • Section 42A(1): replaced, on , by section 35 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 40).
      • Section 42A(1A): inserted, on , by section 35 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 40).
      • Section 42A(2): replaced, on , by section 11 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 2).