Mining Regulations - Western Australia

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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Australia
Year	1981
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Open data, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Sovereign wealth funds, State-owned enterprises, Subnational governance
Document Type	Policy Document
RGI Sub-component	State-owned enterprises
RGI Questions	1.1.5d: Are there rules that companies can follow to appeal licensing decisions?, 1.4a: What proportion of equity shares does the government own in extractive companies?, 1.4c: What is the name of the largest company in which the government has a controlling share (i.e. an SOE)?, 1.4.1a: Are there rules governing fiscal transfers between the government and the SOE?, 1.4.2a: Does the government publicly disclose how much revenue it receives from the SOE?, 1.4.2b: Does the SOE publicly disclose how much revenue it transfers to the government?, 1.4.3a: Is the SOE required to publicly disclose annual reports containing information on its finances and operations?, 1.4.5b: Has the SOE publicly disclosed annual reports on its finances and operations?, 1.4.5c: Does the SOE's most recent public annual report include a balance sheet statement?, 1.4.5d: Does the SOE's most recent public annual report include a cash flow statement?, 1.4.5e: Does the SOE's most recent public annual report include an income statement?, 1.4.9a: Does the SOE publicly disclose its participation in joint ventures?, 1.4.9b: Does the SOE publicly disclose its levels of ownership in joint ventures?, 1.4.9c: Does the SOE publicly disclose the costs and revenues deriving from its participation in joint ventures?, 1.4.9d: Does the SOE publicly disclose a list of its subsidiaries?, 1.4.9e: Does the SOE publicly disclose the costs and revenues deriving from its subsidiaries?, 2.2a: Does the central government transfer extractive resource revenues to subnational governments?, 2.2b: Are there specific rules governing the transfer of extractive resource revenues (i.e. are these rules distinct from those governing other types of transfers)?, 2.2c: Do rules specify that subnational governments of producing areas should receive a higher share of extractive resource revenues than those of non-producing areas?, 2.3a: Does the country have a natural resource fund which is funded by extractive resource revenues?, 2.3b: If there are multiple natural resource funds, which is the largest?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law and Practice (Both)
Publisher	Western Australian State Govt
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Source or API link	http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/pco/prod/FileStore.nsf/Documents/MRDocument:28155P/$FILE/Mining%20Regulations%201981%20-%20[10-h0-03].pdf?OpenElement
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute