Enclosure 2.
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An Ordinance to empower the Governor to grant licences to search for and prove minerals and to grant licences and leases
of land for the purpose of working mines and minerais.
Be it enacted
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Short title.
Fower to grant prospecting licences.
Power to erant Minine licences.
Fower to grant kicing leases.
1. This Ordinance shall be cited as the Prospecting and
Mining Ürdinance, 1906.
2. The Governor in Council from time to time may at his
absolute discretion and upon such terms and conditions as he
thinks fit, grant licence and authority to any person to search
for and procure specimens of metals and minerals in and from
any Crown Land, whether such land be then held under lease
from the Crown or otherwise, provided that no such licence
shall be granted for a period longer than six months, renewable
or not as to the Governor in Council may seer fit.
3. The Governor in Council from time to time may, at his
absolute discretion and upon such terms and conditions as be
thinks fit, erant licence and authority to any person to get
and carry away metals and minerals in and from any Crown Land,
whether such land be then beld under lease from the Crown or
otherwise, provided that no such licence shall be granted for a
period longer than One year, renewable or not as to the Governor
in Council may seem fit.
4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant and agree to
erant for any term not exceeding Seventy-Five years (or for
such longer term as a Secretary of State may authorise), in the
name and on behalf of the King, such leases as may be declared
by the Governor in Council to be expedient to be granted for
the purpose of working mines, metals and minerals upon such
terms and subject to such conditions as the Governor in Council
may in each case determine.