Government Gazette OF THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES Week No. 6/2002 Friday, 8 February 2002 Published under authority by the Government Printing Service Containing numbers 36, 37, 38 and 39 Units 5 , Block V, Regents Park Industrial Estate Pages 729 - 816 391 Park Road, REGENTS PARK 2143 Phone: 9743 8777 Fax: 9743 8203 Email: [email protected] CONTENTS Number 36 GOVERNMENT PRINTING SERVICE SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Writ of Election .......................................................... 729 Attention Advertisers . 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JOHN HENRY MURRAY, SPEAKER OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY of the State of New South Wales, in the Commonwealth of Australia, directs it to be notifi ed, for general information, that a Writ hath this day been issued, and that the following arrangements have been made for the Election of a Member to serve in the present Legislative Assembly of the said State for the Electoral District of HORNSBY in the room of Stephen Mark O’Doherty, resigned. Date of Writ: Monday 4 February 2002. Date of Nomination: Thursday 7 February 2002. Polling Day: Saturday 23 February 2002. Return of Writ: Friday 8 March 2002. RUSSELL D. GROVE Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. 730 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 4 February 2002 Authorised to be printed ISSN 0155-6320 R. J. MILLIGAN, Government Printer. NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT GAZETTE No. 36 731 Government Gazette OF THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES Number 37 Tuesday, 5 February 2002 Published under authority by the Government Printing Service SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT State Electoral Office Level 20 207 Kent Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 Appointment of Pre-Poll Voting Places By-election for the State Electoral District of Hornsby Saturday, 23 February 2002 I hereby declare the places set out below to be appointed places for the purpose of section 114P of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912. I hereby further declare the days and hours specified below in respect of the appointed places to be the appointed days and hours for the purpose of the abovesaid section. Place Days Hours Hornsby 8 Edgeworth David Ave 11 to 15 February 2002 9am to 5pm 16 February 9am to 1pm 18 to 20 February 2002 9am to 5pm 21 February 2002 9am to 8pm 22 February 2002 9am to 6pm State Electoral Office Level 20 207 Kent St Sydney 11 to 15 February 2002 9am to 5pm 18 to 22 February 2002 9am to 5pm J WASSON, Electoral Commissioner 732 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 5 February 2002 Authorised to be printed ISSN 0155-6320 R. J. MILLIGAN, Government Printer. NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT GAZETTE No. 37 733 Government Gazette OF THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES Number 38 Friday, 8 February 2002 Published under authority by the Government Printing Service LEGISLATION Proclamations Transport Administration Amendment (Rail Access) Act 2001 No 131— Proclamation MARIE BASHIR, , GovernorGovernor I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Transport Administration Amendment (Rail Access) Act 2001, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 18 February 2002 as the day on which that Act commences. Signed andand sealed sealed at at Sydney, Sydney, this this 6th day day of of February 2002. 2002. By Her Excellency’s Command, L.S. CARL SCULLY, M.P., MinisterMinister forfor TransportTransport GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! p02-017-p01.818 734 LEGISLATION 8 February 2002 Regulations Mining (General) Amendment Regulation 2002 under the Mining Act 1992 Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Mining Act 1992. The Hon EDWARD OBEID, M.L.C., Minister forfor Mineral Mineral Resources Resources Explanatory note The object of this Regulation is to amend the Mining (General) Regulation 1997: (a) to increase penalties currently prescribed for offences that may be dealt with by penalty notice, and (b) to prescribe certain matters for the purposes of section 390 of the Mining Act 1992, and (c) to prescribe a requirement for the lodgment of security deposits for opal prospecting licences, and (d) to revise the definition of “mining purposes” in the Regulation, and (e) to vary the quantity of minerals that may lawfully be taken in the course of fossicking and to require fossickers to replace material that has been disturbed in the course of fossicking. This Regulation is made under the Mining Act 1992, including section 388 and Schedule 4 (the general power to make regulations) and sections 12, 13, 228, 248, 375A, 382 and 390. r01-114-p03.818 Page 1 NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT GAZETTE No. 38 8 February 2002 LEGISLATION 735 Clause 1 Mining (General) Amendment Regulation 2002 Mining (General) Amendment Regulation 2002 1 Name of Regulation This Regulation is the Mining (General) Amendment Regulation 2002. 2 Amendment of Mining (General) Regulation 1997 The Mining (General) Regulation 1997 is amended as set out in Schedule 1. Page 2 NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT GAZETTE No. 38 736 LEGISLATION 8 February 2002 Mining (General) Amendment Regulation 2002 Amendments Schedule 1 Schedule 1 Amendments (Clause 2) [1] Clause 6 Meaning of “mining purpose” Omit clause 6 (a) (vii). [2] Clause 6 (f) Insert at the end of clause 6 (e): (f) the construction, maintenance and use (in or in connection with mining operations) of any drillhole or shaft for: (i) drainage of gas, or (ii) drainage or conveyance of water, or (iii) ventilation, or (iv) conveyance of electricity, or (v) conveyance of materials, or (vi) communications, or (vii) emergency access to underground workings. [3] Clause 10 Fossicking: section 12 Omit clause 10 (1) (b). [4] Clause 10 (1) (d) Omit the paragraph. Insert instead: (d) in the course of fossicking for minerals, remove more than: (i) 25 kilograms of minerals (other than gold or gemstones), or (ii) 50 grams of gold (except where found as nuggets of 10 grams or greater), or (iii) 100 grams of gemstones during any single period of 48 hours. Page 3 NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT GAZETTE No. 38 8 February 2002 LEGISLATION 737 Mining (General) Amendment Regulation 2002 Schedule 1 Amendments [5] Clause 10 (1) (e) Insert at the end of clause 10 (1) (d): , or (e) fail to replace any soil, rock or other material that has been disturbed in the course of fossicking for minerals. [6] Clause 10 (1) Omit “10 penalty units”. Insert instead “50 penalty units”. [7] Clause 10 (2) Omit “Group 3,”. [8] Clause 11 Applications: section 13 Insert after clause 11 (2): (3) The requirements of this clause that an application be accompanied by a standard map or diagram are satisfied if the map or diagram (accompanied by particulars of the application to which it relates) is lodged, in the same manner as an application is lodged under clause 44, so as to be received by the Director-General, or other person nominated by the Director-General as referred to in clause 44