Sentences with phrase «prospecting licence applications»

While the Taskforce Paper was not specific, it appears that the recommendations envisaged that, in return for the enactment of a heritage survey agreement requirement, native title parties may be required to give up their statutory right to object when and if the expedited procedure is applied to exploration and prospecting licence applications.

The State recently announced its new policy for the processing of exploration and prospecting licence applications in line with the recommendations of a Technical Taskforce aimed at reducing the current backlog of mining, exploration and prospecting tenement applications and putting in place processes to facilitate the granting of new applications.

However, the Commission maintains concern regarding Taskforce recommendations relating to the processing of exploration and prospecting licence applications.

In its assessment, the Taskforce has made recommendations to continue to submit exploration and prospecting licence applications to the expedited procedures process.

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«The freeze on NSW petroleum exploration licence applications and petroleum special prospecting authority applications was expected to end tomorrow.

Of the section 29 notices received, 2994, or 98 %, were applications for mining tenements (including exploration / prospecting licences and productive mining leases).

It is inconsistent with human rights principles that the right to negotiate be removed by the blanket application of a formula that pre-empts a proper consideration of the effect of an exploration or prospecting licence on native title.

The major reason attributed for the backlog of mining title applications was»... delays arising from the interface of legislative requirements under the NTA and the Mining Act 1978» [59], and in particular, the requirement that exploration and prospecting licences be progressively surrendered within short time - frames (four to five years), usually before exploration activities are completed.

The Taskforce Paper recommended that mining lease applications should be subject to the full right to negotiate processes under the NTA, but that the expedited procedure should be applied to all applications for exploration and prospecting licences.