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Chapter 363.
Mining (Ok Tedi Agreement) Act 1976.
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INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
Chapter 363.
Mining (Ok Tedi Agreement) Act 1976.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
AN ACT
entitled
Mining (Ok Tedi Agreement) Act 1976,
Being an Act to provide for the approval and implementation of an agreement relating to the development of certain mineral deposits in the Ok Tedi region of the Western Province.
In this Act–
“the Agreement” means the agreement a copy of which is set out in Schedule 1;
“the commencement date” means 29 June 1976 being the date on which the Mining (Ok Tedi Agreement) Act 1976 came into force.
The Agreement is approved and has effect according to its tenor.
[1]The 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.
Notwithstanding anything in any other law in force in the country at any time (whether before or after the commencement of this Act), the Minister has power, on behalf of the State, to make all grants, issues, renewals and extensions required by or under the 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.
The purposes of the Agreement are a public purpose within the meaning of any law in force in the country.
SCHEDULE 1 – THE AGREEMENT.
AGREEMENT
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