Minerals Development Act 2017

Duty to assist inspectors

193. (1) Every licensee under a prospecting licence, retention licence, or mining licence shall—

(a) allow an inspector to have access at all reasonable times to the land specified in the licence and to all surface structures and underground workings used by the licensee,

(b) produce to an inspector on request—

(i) any record that is required to be kept under, and

(ii) any information regarding his or her compliance with,

this Act, the regulations or the licence, and

(c) provide to an inspector on request drill cores and specimens of minerals or rock obtained prospecting for, or working, minerals.

(2) Every owner or manager of a mine of excepted minerals shall allow an inspector to have access at all reasonable times to the mine site and to all surface and underground structures and workings used in the mine operations.