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Mining (Ok Tedi Second Supplemental Agreement) Act 1981

Chapter 363B.

Mining (Ok Tedi Second Supplemental Agreement) Act 1981.
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INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Chapter 363B.

Mining (Ok Tedi Second Supplemental Agreement) Act 1981.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

AN ACT

entitled

Mining (Ok Tedi Second Supplemental Agreement) Act 1981,

Being an Act to provide for the approval and implementation of a Second Supplemental Agreement relating to the development of certain mineral deposits in the Ok Tedi region of the Western Province.

1. INTERPRETATION.

In this Act–

“the commencement date” means 11 September 1981, being the date on which the Mining (Ok Tedi Second Supplemental Agreement) Act 1981 came into force.

“the Second Supplemental Agreement” means the second Supplemental agreement a copy of which is set out in Schedule 1.

2. APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT.

The Second Supplemental Agreement is approved and has effect according to its tenor.

3. EFFECT IN RELATION TO LAWS OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

^[1]The Second Supplemental Agreement has the force of law for the full term provided for therein as if contained in this Act and shall apply notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law in force in the country.

4. ANCILLARY POWERS OF MINISTER.

Notwithstanding anything in any other law in force in the country at any time (whether before or after the commencement date), the Minister has power, on behalf of the State, to make all grants, issues, renewals and extensions required by or under the Second Supplemental Agreement to be made by the State, and is not bound in that regard by any provisions of any such law requiring or permitting any authority, consent, approval, report, recommendation, appeal, procedure or formality, or by any similar provision.

SCHEDULE 1

Sec. 1.

SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT

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1. ^[1]Section 3 repealed and replaced by the Mining (OK Tedi Agreements) (Amendment) Act 1986 (No. 26 of 1986), s 5. .