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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 22nd day of January, 1969.

HONG KONG

No. 3 of 1969.

Deputy Clerk of Councils,

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the suid billää

Deputy Clerk of Council,

(Secretariat GR 14/3231

I assent.

Haunch

"Governor.

6th February, 1969.

An Ordinance to amend further the Mining Ordinance.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and

consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

commencermeni,

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Mining (Amendment) Short die and Ordinance 1969, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting the definition of "mineral" and substituting the following-

""mineral" includes —

(a) metalliferous ores and other substances in their natural state which are obtainable only by mining or in the course of prospecting operations:

(b) metalliferous ores and other substances in their

natural state mined or obtained in the course of prospecting operations;

Amendment of section 2. Cap. 285.7