Applica. Lion to Superin- tendent of Mines to
be in
prescribed form.
Power to
permit
amend-
ment
First Schodule, Form I.
It and 111.
Withdrawal
5. (0) Any person who desires to obtain a prospecting licence, a mining licence or a mining lease, shall apply to the Superintendent of Mines on the appropriate form prescribed in the First Schedule.
(2) The applicant shall submit his application in duplicate.
(3) A plan of the area applied for shall be sent with cach copy of the application. The plan shall be drawn to a scale of 1:20,000, and such plan shall show-
(a) the position of the temporary markers erected by the
applicant in accordance with regulation 4;
(6) the approximate magnetic bearing and distance from one
marker to the next;
(c) all important local objects, landmarks, streams and
buildings within the area applied for;
(d) the topographical features including the courses and names of streams within or adjacent to the area applied for, as shown on the 1:20,000 topographical sheet cover- ing the district in which the area lies.
(4) Before an application can be accepted, die applicant shall pay to the Treasury the appropriate prescribed fee.
(5) When no question of priority of applications arises, the Superintendent of Mines may permit amendment of an application in the case of clerical or minor errors in the plan, and the date of such amended application shall be the original date of its first acceptance.
6. (1) Any applicant who withdraws bis application for a Application, prospecting licence, a mining licence or a mining lease shall pay
to the Treasury the appropriate prescribed fee.
Refusal of upplica- tion on failure to
furnish
financial security.
(2) An application for a prospecting licence shall not be withdrawn after the applicant has marked out within the pro- specting area an area in respect of which a mining licence or a mining lease has been applied for.
7.
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.
8.
payments.
The applicant shall within fourteen days after demand, Foes and pay to the Treasury any payments which
have been FLY" demanded, and in the event of the applicant failing so to do the Commissioner may refuse his application.
ance of
boundary
9. All markers indicating the area in respect of which a Mainten- prospecting licence, a mining licence or a mining lease has been issued shall at all times be kept in good condition and repair by markers, the licensee or lessee.
PART 11,
Prospecting Licences.
10. A prospecting licence shall be in the form prescribed in Prospecting the First Schedule,
Elcence.
First Schedute. Form IV.
11. (1) Every holder of a prospecting licence who desires Applica- to dispose of or retain any minerals obtained in the course of Lion to
dispose of prospecting shall apply in writing to the Superintendent of Mines, or retain minerals, and shall
(a) state the kind and quantity of minerals in respect of which
the application is made; and
(b) state the location from which the mineral was obtained:
and
(c) furnish such other information as the Superintendent of
Mines may require; and
(d) pay the prescribed fee.
(2) The consent of the Superintendent of Mines to the dis- posal of or retention of any mineral by the holder of a prospecting licence shall he in writing and shall specify the kind and quantity of the minerals which may be disposed of or retained.
ANCIVA-
12. A holder of a prospecting licence shall fill in or other Duty to wise render secure, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of fill in Mines, all unproductive shafts, excavations or trenches made by tions, him in the course of prospecting.