This Act may be cited as the Crown Minerals Amendment Act (No 2) 1997, and is part of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 (“the principal Act”).

(1) This subsection inserted s 61(1A) of the principal Act.

(2) This subsection inserted s 61(4) to (8) of the principal Act.

This section inserted Schedule 4 of the principal Act.

(1) [Repealed]

(2) This subsection inserted definitions of the terms exploration, mining and prospecting in section 2(1) Resource Management Act 1991.

(3) Where, before the date of commencement of this section, an application has been made for a coastal permit (as defined in section 2(1) of the Resource Management Act 1991) for any prospecting, exploring, or mining for any Crown owned minerals, other than those prospecting, exploration, or mining activities set out in section 61(1A) of the principal Act, in the internal waters (as defined in section 4 of the Territorial Sea, Contiguous Zone, and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1977) of the Coromandel Peninsula, that application may be heard and determined in all respects, including any right of appeal, as if this section had not been enacted.