Register for the MRF
Under the Mining Rehabilitation Fund Act 2012, every holder of a mining tenement (prospecting licence, exploration licence, mining lease, general purpose lease, miscellaneous licence or retention licence) must provide assessment information to the Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DEMIRS) for the purposes of calculating an annual mining rehabilitation levy. If a tenement is held by more than one person, each of those persons must provide that information.
Assessment information is provided by lodging a report online using our EARS 2 system. For the purposes of these reports, tenements are grouped together according to how the name and postal address of the tenement holder is recorded on the tenement register. In this way, every tenement that a person holds will be contained within the same report, as long as the name and address is recorded in exactly the same way.
To lodge a report, each person that holds a tenement must register for access and to ensure that access is limited only to those that are authorised. DEMIRS issues a unique set of verification codes to each tenement holder so that an authorised person can register them and access the report. The first person to register the codes becomes the 'Company Administrator' and may then grant access to others. Once the codes have been registered, they can't be used again.
Because tenements are grouped together according to their name and postal address, new verification codes are issued when a new name and address combination first appears. For example, when a person's first tenement is granted, when the name or address of the tenement holder changes, or a tenement is granted that has a different address. If a person already holds tenements with exactly the same name and address, any new tenements with matching details will simply be added to the same report (and no new codes will be issued).
If verification codes are issued, it's important that they're registered as soon as possible. This is not only so that the report can be lodged on time but so that an email address can be added to our mailing list for any e-mail reminders that we may send. Please note that there are penalties for lodging your reports after the due date.
If you don't already have a username (an 'EX' account) for use in the DEMIRS systems, you can apply for one during the registration process.
The MRF team is here to assist tenement holders with their MRF registration and with lodging their reports.
Phone: +61 8 9222 3162
Email: mrfenquiry@demirs.wa.gov.au
Lodge an MRF report
In order to lodge your report, you will need:
- to have already registered for on-line access to your report via the Environmental Assessment and Regulatory System (EARS2)
- your DEMIRS username ('Ex-account') and password
- disturbance data for the tenements that you are providing assessment information for
- your tenement numbers (so that you can check that they are all included)
Log into EARS2 by clicking on 'Lodge Report', then select the 'Summary' button on the EARS2 Home Page or select 'MRF Reporting' then 'Summary' from the MRF Tab on the toolbar.
