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QUEENSLAND
MINING ROYALTIES ACT 1974, No. 47
[Reprinted as at 1 March, 1987]
An Act to amend the Mining Act 1968-197 4 with respect to royalties payable in respect of mineral won or of mineral-bearing ore removed, to provide for the construction of agreements and undertakings that provide for the payment of such royalties, and for related purposes
[ASSENTED TO 1 7 SEPTEMBER, 197 4]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. Citation. (1) This Act may be cited as the Mining Royalties Act 1974.
(2) In this Act the Mining Act 1968-1974 is referred to as the Principal Act.
(3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Mining Act 1968-1974.
2. Commencement of Act. This Act shall commence on a date fixed by Proclamation.
3, 4. Amended the Mining Act 1968-1974.
5. Operation of regulations. (1) Regulations may be made with respect to matters referred to in section 70 of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, after the passing of this Act.
(2) Notwithstanding section 107 of the Principal Act or any rule of law to the contrary, regulations first made after the passing of this Act with respect to any matter referred to in section 70 of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be expressed to operate on and from 1 August 1974 or on and from any date subsequent to that date, and, in that event, shall have force and effect in law on and from the date so expressed.
6. Continued operation of agreements and undertakings. The rights and obligations of-
any party to an agreement; or
any person who has given an undertaking,
2 s. 7 MINING ROYALTIES ACT 1974 s. 7
such as is referred to in section 70A of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, shall not be affected (save as is prescribed by that section and by any regulation made with respect to any matter referred to in section 70 of the Principal Act as so amended), nor shall any action be brought in any court in relation to such an agreement or undertaking, by reason of the enactment of this Act or by reason of any act done under the authority of the amendment made by this Act to the Principal Act or under the authority of such a regulation.
7. Amended the Coal Mining Act 1925-1974.
BY AUTHORITY
S. R. HAMPSON, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, QUEENSLAND-1987
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