Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Registers, records, and use of information

90D: Treatment of speculative prospecting information purchased or licensed by permit holder

You could also call this:

"What to do with mineral information bought from someone without a permit"

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If you have a permit to look for minerals, and you buy or license information from someone who looks for minerals without a permit, you must treat that information like it's your own records. When you give this information to the chief executive under section 90, you must say that it came from someone who looks for minerals without a permit. You must make it clear where the information came from, so the chief executive knows. If someone asks for this information 15 years or more after it was found, the chief executive must give it to them, even if the rules in section 90(6) and (7) would normally say no. If the chief executive asks, you must prove that the information you gave them came from someone who looks for minerals without a permit, by showing them evidence under section 90.

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90C: Provisions relating to speculative prospectors, or

"Rules for people who search for oil to sell information to others"

90E: Providing information to regulatory agencies, or

"Sharing information with agencies that help keep people and the environment safe"

Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Offences and miscellaneous: Registers, records, and use of information

90DTreatment of speculative prospecting information purchased or licensed by permit holder

If a permit holder purchases or licenses information that relates to the permit from a speculative prospector, for the purposes of section 90, the information must be treated as records or reports in respect of activities conducted by or on behalf of the permit holder.
However, when providing the information to the chief executive under section 90(2), the permit holder must clearly identify that the information was obtained by a speculative prospector.
Despite section 90(6) and (7), information to which this section applies must be made available by the chief executive to any person who requests it on or after the expiry of 15 years after the date on which the information was obtained by the speculative prospector.
A permit holder must, if requested to do so, provide evidence to satisfy the chief executive that any information supplied to him or her by the permit holder under section 90 was purchased or licensed information from a speculative prospector.

Notes

Section 90D: inserted, on 24 May 2013, by section 43 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).