Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Joint Authority may invite applications for the grant of a mining licence over reserved blocks.
(2) Applications may be invited for a licence covering a group of reserved blocks only if the group forms a discrete area.
(3) The Joint Authority is to invite applications by publishing a tender block licence notice for the licence in the Gazette.
Note 1: A mining licence may cover not more than 20 tender blocks (see section 219).
Note 2: A mining licence might be made available by a tender block notice if a mineral deposit in the area had already been identified and sufficient information was already available to justify the issue of a mining licence rather than an exploration licence.