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MINING ORDINANCE, 1954.

(No. 33 of 1954).

MININO (GENERAL) (AMENDMENT) Regulations. 1960.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 68 of the Mining Ordinance, 1954, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations

1. These regulations may be cited as the Mining (General) Citation (Amendment) Regulations, 1960, and shall come into operation on the and com sammcement of the Mining (Amendment) Ordinance, 1960.

mencement.

2. Faragraph (1) of regulation 32 of the Mining (General) Regula- Revocation of tions, 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations) is regulation revoked,

3201).

(G.N.A. 124/54).

3. Regulation 38 of the principal regulations is amended by the Agendment avention therein, after the figure "32", of the following-

of regula-

tion 38.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

*(2)".

Clerk of Courwils.

Sth July, 1960.

Explanatory Note.

(This Nate is not part of the regulations, but is intended

to indicate their general purport).

Under the provisions of section 24 of the Mining (Amendment) Ordin- 4. 1960, revised and improved provisions with respect to the giving of security, luding the giving of security for payment of royalties, have been inserted in Mining Ordinance, 1954. These regulations make amendments to the Mining General) Regulations, 1954, consequent upon the insertion of those provisions.

2 The new provisions of the Mining Ordinance, 1954, with respect to the sing of security are fully explained in paragraph 19 of the statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the Mining (Amendment) BiU, 1960.

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