Offshore Minerals Regulations 2010 (WA)

Western Australia Offshore Minerals Act 2003 Offshore Minerals Regulations 2010 Western Australia Offshore Minerals Regulations 2010 Contents Part 1 — Preliminary 1. Citation 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Term used: section 1 Part 2 — Prescribed Australian datum 4. Geocentric Datum of Australia 1 Part 3 — Ballot procedures 5. Multiple applications: time of lodgment 1 6. Multiple applications: drawing of lots 1 Part 4 — Records and samples 7. Terms used 1 8. Records 1 9. Drill cores 1 10. Testing and analysis of samples 1 Part 5 — Restoration of environment 11. Terms used 1 12. Removal of unused mining property 1 13. Disposal of unused mining property 1 14. Direction to rehabilitate mining area 1 Part 6 — Miscellaneous 15. Maps 1 16. Notice of caveat 1 17. Copies of documents 1 18. Discharge of security 1 19. Licence fees (s. 425(2)) 1 20. Other fees 1 Schedule 1 — Australian Fiducial Network geodetic stations Schedule 2 — Fees Notes Compilation table 1 Defined terms Offshore Minerals Act 2003 Offshore Minerals Regulations 2010

Part 1 — Preliminary

1. Citation These regulations are the Offshore Minerals Regulations 2010.

2. Commencement These regulations come into operation as follows — (a) regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette; (b) the rest of the regulations — on the day on which the provisions of the Act, other than sections 1 and 2, come into operation.

3. Term used: section In these regulations — section means a section of the Act.

Part 2 — Prescribed Australian datum

4. Geocentric Datum of Australia (1) In this regulation — AFN coordinates means the coordinates of the Australian Fiducial Network geodetic stations specified in Schedule 1; GDA means the Geocentric Datum of Australia; GRS80 ellipsoid means the Geodetic Reference System 1980 ellipsoid. (2) The GDA is prescribed for the purposes referred to in section 10(1). (3) The reference ellipsoid for the GDA is the GRS80 ellipsoid with a semi‑major axis of 6 378 137 m exactly and an inverse flattening (l/f) of 298.257 222 101. (4) The reference frame for the GDA is realised by the AFN coordinates referred to the GRS80 ellipsoid determined within the International Earth Rotation Service Terrestrial Reference Frame 1992 (ITRF92) at the epoch of 1994.0.