New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 201

201 Interfering with a mine

(1) A person who intentionally or recklessly--

(a) causes water to run into a mine or any subterranean channel connected to it,

(b) destroys, damages or obstructs any shaft, passage, pit, airway, waterway or drain of, or associated with, a mine,

(c) destroys, damages or renders useless any equipment, structure, building, road or bridge belonging to, or associated with, a mine, or

(d) hinders the working of equipment belonging to, or associated with, a mine,

is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.

(2) In this section,
"mine" includes--

(a) a place at which gas or other petroleum is extracted from the ground, and

(b) a place at which exploration for minerals, or for gas or other petroleum, is undertaken by mechanical means that disturb the ground, and

(c) a place at which works are being carried out to enable the extraction of minerals, or of gas or other petroleum, from the ground, and

(d) a former mine at which works are being carried out to decommission the mine or make it safe.