Amendment of regula-
tion 7.
Amendment of regula bion 11.
Revocation
and replace-
ment of
Marking and inspection
of land.
3.
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5. At any time after the expiration of fourteen days from the date on which the notice or, where more than one such notice is required, the last of such notices was given pursuant to regulation 4, the Superintendent of Mines, subject to notice having been given to the owner or occupier, if any, of any private land in question, may inspect, or cause to be inspected, the area to which the application relates, and for the purposes of any such inspec tion may require the applicant, subject to the consent of such owner or occupier, to erect temporary markers indicating on the ground the boundaries of the area to which the application relates,”.
Regulation 7 of the principal regulations is amended- (a) by being renumbered as paragraph (1) thereof: (b) by the insertion of the following new paragraph--
"(2) Notwithstanding that no financial security is required of an applicant as aforesaid, the Commissioner may refuse to grant an application for a prospecting Icence or a mining licence unless he is satisfied that the applicant commands sufficient working capital to ensure adequate prospecting of, or, as the case may be, proper working of the area applied for." and
(c) by the insertion in the marginal note, after the word "security",
of the following-
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"or for want of working capital".
Regulation 11 of the principal regulations is amended- (a) by the deletion of the words "Superintendent of Mines". wherever the same occur, and the substitution therefor of the following
"Commissioner"; and
(b) by the deletion, în sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1), of the words "the mineral" and the substitution therefor of the following---
"each mineral".
5. Regulation 14 of the principal regulations is revoked and replaced by the following-
regulation 14. "Minimum
expenditure
DA DIOS-
pecting.
14. The expenditure by the holder of a prospecting licence for prospecting alone shall be at the average rate of not less than ten dollars per acre per month over each period of six months during which the licence is in forde the first such period commencing on the date of the licence
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and, where the licence is renewed, the second and any sub- sequent period as aforesaid commencing forthwith upon the expiration of the period immediately preceding it”.
6. Regulation 15 of the principal regulations is revoked and Revocation replaced by the following-
and replace- ment of
"Sospension
or reduction of minimum cxpenditure.
7.
15. On the application of the bolder of a prospecting regulation 15. licence and on payment of the appropriate prescribed (ec, the Commissioner, for good cause shown, may by writing under his hand either suspend the obligation imposed on the holder of the licence by regulation 14, or reduce the average minimum rate of expenditure imposed upon the bolder of the licence by the said regulation to such rate, in either case for a period of six months at any one time (being a period referred to in regulation 14), as he may deem proper, and such power may be exercised by the Commissioner notwithstanding that the period for which suspension of the obligation or reduction of the average minimum rate of expenditure, as the case may be, is granted, has commenced to run.”.
Amendmeal of regula
Regulation 18 of the principal regulations is amended- (a) by the deletion of the word and figure "regulation 5" and the tios 18.
substitution therefor of the following-
"regulation 3":
(b) by the deletion of the word "inspection" and the substitution
therefor of the following-
"retention" and
(c) by the delction of the words "calculated ore reserves" and the
substitution therefor of the following-
"ore reserves as calculated"".
8. Regulation 19 of the principal regulations is amended by the Amendment deletion of the words "an application for a mining lease" and the sub- of regula- stitution therefor of the following—
"the grant of a mining lease",
tion 19.
9. Regulation 20 of the principal regulations is amended by the Amendment deletion of the words "and in accordance with the conditions endorsed of regula thereon".
tom 20.
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10, Regulation 21 of the principal regulations is amended by the Amendment deletion, in paragraph (2), of the words "an application for a mining of regula. lease" and the substitution therefor of the following—
"the grant of a mining lease".
tion 21.