A miscellaneous licence is for purposes such as a roads and pipelines, or other purposes as prescribed in Regulation 42B of the Mining Act 1978 (the Act).
There is no maximum area for a miscellaneous licence, and there is no limit to the number of miscellaneous licences a person or company may hold.
A miscellaneous licence can be applied for over (and can ‘co-exist’ with) other mining tenements.
The term of a miscellaneous licence is 21 years and may be renewed for further terms.
For more information download the document Marking out and applying for a mining tenement.
