Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 3.16

3.16 .         Details to be included in notification of abandonment

                Notification of the abandonment of mining operations at a mine must, in addition to the details set out in regulation 3.12, include the following details — 

            (a)         details of precautions taken to ensure that access to underground workings has been secured against unauthorised entry;

            (b)         details of precautions taken to prevent inadvertent access to open pit workings;

            (c)         details of precautions taken to prevent, so far as is practicable, any post mining subsidence into underground workings, by back‑filling stope voids and by other appropriate measures;

            (d)         details of precautions taken to ensure that all plant and equipment have been removed or secured and left in a safe condition;

            (e)         details of precautions taken to remove or properly dispose of all hazardous substances at the mine; and

            (f)         any plans required to be prepared under section 88 of the Act.

        [Heading inserted in Gazette 4 Apr 2005 p. 1107.]