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Radio-Active Minerals.
43 of 1948.
CHAPTER 145.
RADIO-ACTIVE MINERALS.
To regulate and control prospecting and mining for radio-active minerals and the export thereof and for purposes connected therewith.
[27th August, 1948.]
Short title.
Interpretation.
Prospecting and mining restricted.
(7 of 1906).
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Radio-Active Minerals Ordinance.
2.
In this Ordinance-
"to attempt to export" means to do any act preparatory to or for the purpose of exportation, not being an act connected with an application for a permit to export; "export" means to take or cause to be taken out of the Colony by land, air or water, and includes the export of anything taken or sent from any country and brought into the Colony by land, air or water (whether or not landed or transhipped in the Colony) for the sole purpose of being carried to another country either by the same or another conveyance;
"licence" means a licence issued under the provisions of section 3;
"mine" includes all operations for the intentional winning or obtaining of any radio-active mineral;
"permit" means a permit issued under the provisions of section 5;
"prospect" means to search for any radio-active mineral and includes such working as is reasonably necessary to enable the prospector to test the radio-active mineral-bearing qualities of the area concerned; "radio-active mineral" means any substance specified in the Schedule.
3. (1) Notwithstanding anything in the Prospecting and Mining Ordinance, 1906, contained no person shall within the Colony prospect for or mine, or attempt to prospect for or mine, any radio-active mineral except under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Governor.
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