Amendment
of section 68.
Substitutform
of "Cam- missioner"
10
(7) Upon the expiry or determination of the lease or licence, the "Accountant General shall, when he is satisfied that no, or no further, sums, being sums in respect of which the security (which expression shall include, where applicable, additional security) was given, remain unpaid, return or release such security, or the balance thereof, it any, as the case may be, to the person by whom the same was given.
(8) Where, under subsections (1) and (2), respectively, the Land Officer or the Commissioner has required security or additional security to be given for any sum which may become payable to the Crown by way of royalties, no ore or mineral shall be disposed of or removed from the mining area until such security has been given in accord- ance with the provisions of this section.".
25. Subsection (1) of section 68 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) by the deletion of paragraph (g) and the substitution therefor
of the following—
"(g) the imposition of obligations upon holders of prospecting and mining licences and upon lessces of mining leases;":
(b) by the deletion of paragraph (9).
26. The principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the title "Superintendent" wherever it occurs in sections 8(1), 10, 1607), for "Superin. 17, 28, 39(1) and 43(1) and the substitution therefor of the following-
tendent" in
certain
sections.
Retrospec-
tive effect in certain cases of sections S and 10(b). Schedule.
"Commissioner".
27. In relation to each of the expired prospecting and mining licences specified in the Schedule, the provisions of section 3 and of paragraph (b) of section 10, respectively, shall be deemed to have come into operation on the day immediately preceding the day on which such licence expired, and such licence may be renewed under the pre- visions of the principal Ordinance as amended by the said section 5 or the said paragraph (6) of section 10, as the case may be, with effect from the date on which the same expired.
Mining licencer.
Mining Licence No. 1 of 1955. Mining Licence No. 2 of 1955. Mining Licence No. 4 of 1955. Mining Licence No. 6 of 1955. Mining Licence No. 9 of 1955. Mining Licence No. 10 of 1955. Mining Licence No. 12 of 1955.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 10th day of August, 1960,
(Secretariat GR12/3231/53)
Shape
Dom And
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULE,
Prospecting licence.
Prospecting licence and mining licences.
Prospecting Licence No. 9 of 1958.
[b. 21.]