Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 387

  (1)   A person must not carry out mining operations in Kakadu National Park.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not prevent:

  (a)   the use, development or reconstruction of the township known as Jabiru; or

  (b)   the transportation of anything in Kakadu National Park along routes (including air routes) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; or

  (c)   the construction and use of pipelines and power lines in Kakadu National Park along routes prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; or

  (d)   the doing of anything for the purposes of building or construction, or the supply of water, in Kakadu National Park as long as the purposes are not connected with, or incidental to, mining operations; and

  (e)   prescribed activities carried on in Kakadu National Park in connection with, or incidental to, mining operations carried on outside Kakadu National Park.

  (3)   Kakadu National Park is the Commonwealth reserve (as it exists from time to time) to which the name Kakadu National Park was given by Proclamation continued in force by the Environmental Reform (Consequential Provisions) Act 1999 .