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Holder of mining title not resident in Hong Kong to appoint attorney resident in Hong Kong.
Plans of prospecting and mining operations.
Lands excluded from prospecting and mining.
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Mining.
[1964 Ed.
is the object of veneration, such question shall be referred, where the area or the tree or other thing is situate in the New Territories, to the District Commissioner, and in any other case, to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs; and the decision of the District Commissioner or Secretary for Chinese Affairs, as the case may be, shall be final.
7. (1) When not resident in the Colony every holder of a prospecting or mining licence and every lessee of a mining lease shall at all times have a duly authorized attorney, approved by the Land Officer, resident in the Colony, with full power to represent the holder or lessee in all matters relating to his licence or lease, and shall, within one month after appointing such attorney or making any change in such appointment, produce to the Land Officer the original of the power of attorney or of the document whereby such power of attorney is altered, and supply a copy thereof for his retention.
(2) If the holder of a prospecting or mining licence or the lessee of a mining lease fails to comply with any of the provisions of subsection (1), the Land Officer may, by a notice published in the Gazette, prohibit the continuance of operations in the area the subject of the licence or lease.
(3) If any such default continues for three months after the publication of the notice mentioned in subsection (2), the Land Officer may, by a further notice published in the Gazette, revoke the licence or lease.
8. (1) Every holder of a prospecting or mining licence and every lessee of a mining lease shall, at all times, keep correct plans of all prospecting or mining done, and correct records of all minerals found and ore reserves calculated on the area the subject of his licence or lease, and shall supply to the Commissioner, on request, copies of such plans and records. (Amended, 33 of 1960, s. 26)
(2) The plans required to be kept by subsection (1) shall be on the prescribed scale.
9. No prospecting licence, mining licence or mining lease granted under this Ordinance shall be deemed to authorize prospecting or mining on or in, or the occupation of, any of the following lands-
(a) land set apart for, or used for or appropriated or dedicated to, any public purpose (other than mining), except with the prior consent in writing of the Director of Public Works and subject to such conditions as he may impose;
(b) land appropriated for any railway or situate within one hundred yards of any railway, except with the prior consent in writing of the Manager and Chief Engineer,