ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Interpretation
3 Delegation of powers
Quarry zones and licences
4 Quarry zones
5 Offence to operate quarry without licence
6 Quarries Advisory Committee
7 Functions of the Committee
8 Quarry licence
9 Grounds for refusal to issue licence
10 Surrender of licence
11 Suspension or revocation of licence
12 Security for rehabilitation
13 Licences not transferable
Quarry tax
14 Power of House of Representatives to impose, revoke or vary quarry tax
15 Returns
16 Assessment of tax payable
17 Payment
18 Notice of objection
19 Appeal to Revenue Court
Enforcement
20 Investigations
Seizure and forfeiture of conveyance or machinery
20B Disposal of unclaimed, forfeited or abandoned conveyance or machinery
21 Penalty for default in remitting tax, etc
22 Interest
23 Enforcement under the Tax Collection Act
24 Suit for tax
25 Refund of tax overpaid
26 Offences
27 Officers, etc, of corporation
28 Remission of tax
Safety
29 Power to remedy dangerous practice, etc
30 Penalty on failure to comply with notices
31 Notification of accidents and industrial diseases
Ancillary
32 General penalty
33 Any constable may arrest without warrant
34 Regulations
THE QUARRIES CONTROL ACT
[Date of Commencement: 3rd January, 1984]
Acts
16 of 1983,
25 of 1994
36 of 1995.
Preliminary
This Act may be cited as the Quarries Control Act.
In this Act-
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Mines appointed by the Governor-General under subsection (1) of section 5 of the Mining Act,
"Committee" means the Quarries Advisory Committee established under section 6;
"illicit quarrying" means any removal of quarry material or quarry mineral from any place without a licence granted under section 8 or without the prior consent of the Minister;
[25/1994 s 2(a).]
"licensee" means a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 8;
"Medical Officer" means any person appointed as such by the Chief Medical Officer for the purposes of the Mining Act;
"mineral" has the meaning assigned to it in the Minerals (Vesting) Act;
"quarry'' means any place (not being a mine as defined in the Mining Act) where quarry material or quarry mineral has been removed or is being removed, whether by excavation or otherwise, to supply material for construction purposes, other than dimension stones for the construction industry;
[25/1994 s 2(b).]
"quarry material" means rock, stone, sand (including sea sand), marl, gravel, clay, fill and limestone where such material does not contain any minerals in economically workable quantities;
"quarry mineral" means gypsum and any other substance that the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare to be a quarry mineral;
"quarry tax" or "tax" means quarry tax imposed by or under this Act and includes all penalties and interest that are or may be added to a tax under this Act;
"quarry zone" means any area designated as such by the Minister under section 4;
"quarterly period" means a period of three consecutive months commencing on the 1st day of January, or the 1st day of April, or the 1st day of July, or the 1st day of October, in any year;
"rehabilitation" means to restore to previous condition or set up again in good condition;
"sea sand " means sand on the sea bed, shoreline or foreshore;
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