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Mining (Ok Tedi Third Supplemental Agreement) Act 1983

Chapter 363C.

Mining (Ok Tedi Third Supplemental Agreement) Act 1983.
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INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Chapter 363C.

Mining (Ok Tedi Third Supplemental Agreement) Act 1983.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

AN ACT

entitled

Mining (Ok Tedi Third Supplemental Agreement) Act 1983,

Being an Act to provide for the approval and implementation of a third 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 15 March 1983, being the date on which the Mining (Ok Tedi Third Supplemental Agreement) Act 1983 came into force;

“the Third Supplemental Agreement” means the supplemental agreement, a copy of which is set out in Schedule 1.

2. APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT.

The Third Supplemental Agreement is approved and has affect according to its tenor.

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

^[1]The Third 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 MINISTERS.

Notwithstanding anything in any other law (whether made 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 Third 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

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 ^[1]Section 3 repealed and replaced by the Mining (OK Tedi Agreements) (Amendment) Act 1986 (No. 26 of 1986), s 5.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