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[Subsidiary] Applicants to give notice to owners, etc. of land within area applied for.
L.N. 155/63.
Marking and inspection of land.
L.N. 155/63.
Withdrawal of application.
Refusal of application on failure to furnish financial security or for want of working capital. L.N. 155/63.
Fees and payments.
Maintenance of boundary markers.
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Mining (General) Regulations.
[1971 Ed.
4. Not less than four weeks and not more than six weeks after the making of any application pursuant to the provisions of regulation 3, the applicant shall, unless his application has been refused, give written notice of the particulars of such application to the owner and any lawful occupier of any private land situated within the area to which such application relates, and shall give or send by registered post to the Superintendent of Mines a copy of each such notice.
5. At any time after the expiration of fourteen days from the date on which the notice or, where more than one such notice is required, the last of such notices was given pursuant to regulation 4, the Superintendent of Mines, subject to notice having been given to the owner or occupier, if any, of any private land in question, may inspect, or cause to be inspected, the area to which the application relates, and for the purposes of any such inspection may require the applicant, subject to the consent of such owner or occupier, to erect temporary markers indicating on the ground the boundaries of the area to which the application relates.
6. (1) Any applicant who withdraws his application for a prospecting licence, a mining licence or a mining lease shall pay to the Treasury the appropriate prescribed fee.
(2) An application for a prospecting licence shall not be withdrawn after the applicant has marked out within the prospecting area an area in respect of which a mining licence or a mining lease has been applied for.
7. (1) An application shall be refused if the applicant fails to furnish any financial security which may be required of him for any purposes for which security is required under the Ordinance or these regulations.
(2) Notwithstanding that no financial security is required of an applicant as aforesaid, the Commissioner may refuse to grant an application for a prospecting licence or a mining licence unless he is satisfied that the applicant commands sufficient working capital to ensure adequate prospecting of, or, as the case may be, proper working of, the area applied for.
8. The applicant shall within fourteen days after demand pay to the Treasury any payments which may have been demanded, and in the event of the applicant failing so to do the Commissioner may refuse his application.
9. All markers indicating the area in respect of which a prospecting licence, a mining licence or a mining lease has been issued shall at all times be kept in good condition and repair by the licensee or lessee.