Chapter:	285A	Title:	MINING (GENERAL) REGULATIONS	Gazette Number:
Regulation:	15	Heading:	Suspension or reduction of minimum	Version Date:	30/06/1997

On the application of the holder of a prospecting licence and on payment of the appropriate prescribed fee, the Commissioner, for good cause shown, may by writing under his hand either suspend the obligation imposed on the holder of the licence by regulation 14, or reduce the average minimum rate of expenditure imposed upon the holder of the licence by the said regulation to such rate, in either case for a period of six months at any one time (being a period referred to in regulation 14), as he may deem proper, and such power may be exercised by the Commissioner notwithstanding that the period for which suspension of the obligation or reduction of the average minimum rate of expenditure, as the case may be, is granted, has commenced to run.