Title: Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed)Amendment Bill 2022
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
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Legislative Council—No 183
As introduced and read a first time, 9 February 2022

Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed) Amendment Bill 2022
Contents

Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed) Amendment Bill 2022

Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed) Amendment Bill 2022
Part 1—Preliminary

Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed) Amendment Bill 2022
Preliminary—Part 1

Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed) Amendment Bill 2022
Part 2—Amendment of Mining Act 1971

Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed) Amendment Bill 2022
Amendment of Mining Act 1971—Part 2

South Australia
Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed) Amendment Bill 2022
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Mining Act 1971.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
Part 2—Amendment of Mining Act 1971
2	Insertion of section 9B
9B	Prohibition of mining operations—Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Mining (Prohibition of Mining in Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed) Amendment Act 2022.

Part 2—Amendment of Mining Act 1971
2—Insertion of section 9B
After section 9A insert:
9B—Prohibition of mining operations—Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed
	(1)	After the commencement of this section, rights to undertake underground mining operations cannot be acquired in respect of land within the Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed.
	(2)	This section applies despite the provisions of this or any other Act.
	(3)	In this section—
Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed has the same meaning as in the Landscape South Australia Act 2019.

LC GP 056-B: the Hon Robert Simms MLC