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Warden rules no application for exemption can be made

Mar 27, 2017

In Carnegie Gold Pty Ltd v George Victor Brewer [2017] WAMW 7 the warden answered a preliminary question posed by the parties concluding: “… on a proper construction of the Mining Act, that the holder of a mining tenement may not apply for and be granted a Certificate of Exemption in circumstances where a Form 5 expenditure report has recorded an expenditure of an amount which exceeds the minimum expenditure for the commitment for the relevant year.”