Tailings Treatment (Kalgoorlie) Agreement Act 1988 (WA)

Western Australia Tailings Treatment (Kalgoorlie) Agreement Act 1988 Western Australia Tailings Treatment (Kalgoorlie) Agreement Act 1988 Contents 1. Short title 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Interpretation 1 4. Agreement ratified and implementation authorised 3 5. Power of Minister of Mines to grant special licence to remove and treat certain tailings 3 6. Power of Joint Venturers to enter and re‑enter certain lands and carry out rehabilitation operations and works 4 7. Tailings remaining on expiry or determination of special licence to become absolute property of Crown 4 Schedule — Tailings Treatment (Kalgoorlie) Agreement Notes Compilation table 28 Defined terms Western Australia Tailings Treatment (Kalgoorlie) Agreement Act 1988 An Act to ratify an agreement between the State of Western Australia and Mulga Mines Pty. Ltd. and Western Australian Mint relating to the removal and treatment of mine tailings for the recovery of gold and silver; to enable the granting of a special licence to remove and treat those mine tailings; to enable Mulga Mines Pty. Ltd. and Western Australian Mint to enter and re‑enter certain lands and carry out rehabilitation operations and works thereon; to provide that certain tailings remaining on the expiry or determination of that special licence shall become the absolute property of the Crown; and for purposes incidental to or connected with the foregoing.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Tailings Treatment (Kalgoorlie) Agreement Act 1988 1.

2. Commencement This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent 1.

3. Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — mining tenement has the meaning given by the Mining Act 1978 and includes any right — (a) which was acquired under the Mining Act 1904 2; and (b) which is continued in existence by the Second Schedule to the Mining Act 1978; the Agreement means the agreement a copy of which is set out in the Schedule and includes that agreement as varied from time to time in accordance with its provisions; the Joint Venturers has the meaning given by the Agreement; the special licence means any special licence granted under section 5(1); the tailings areas means the areas to which the licences to remove and treat tailings referred to in recital (a) to the Agreement relate or related, as the case requires, and includes any areas which are specified under subsection (2); the underlying lands means the lands the subject of the mining tenements specified in the Table to this subsection as those mining tenements existed on 8 June 1988, and includes any lands or mining tenements which are specified under subsection (3). Table Type of mining tenement Number of mining tenement Mining lease 26/32 Mining lease 26/55 Mining lease 26/78 Mining lease 26/83 Mineral claim 26/1643 Mineral claim 26/1652 Mineral claim 26/1653 Mineral claim 26/1654 Mineral claim 26/1655 Prospecting licence 26/98 Prospecting licence 26/395 Prospecting licence 26/634 Prospecting licence 26/1051 Prospecting licence 26/1055.