Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00551:section:19a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00551
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19A
Character Range: 70402–71118

19A  Prohibition against mining in the Territory
 (1) A person must not engage in a mining activity:
 (a) in the Territory; or
 (b) on any part of:
 (i) the continental shelf of the Territory; or
 (ii) the continental shelf of any of the islands known as Heard Island and McDonald Islands;
  that is within the Antarctic.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 16 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a mining activity if the activity is the gathering or collecting of a meteorite, or the removal of a rock or meteorite, in accordance with a permit.
Note: The defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matters in subsection (2). See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.