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Where hydraulicing or Gravel pump mining is permitted, a sketch plan should be attached to the permit indicating the limits of the dumping area, and spillways should be of masonry construction, no wooden spillways being allowed. The mines overseer should inspect regularly and report any cases where planks on spillways or hidden contraptions in dams are used to discharge slimes unlawfully at night, in which event the miner should be prosecuted.
Part VI.
Provides for the penalties for breach of the mining regulations, without which the proper control of mining operations is not possible.
Part VII.
Covers points in general which are self explanatory.
Schedules I and II.
These mining regulations, which provide for the control of mining operations in general permit the issue of a simple standard form of mining lease and pro- specting licence in place of the lengthy and complicated forms formerly in force. They also provide for the addition of any special condition as may be considered necessary in any particular case, but in view of the regulations, in practice these are rarely necessary and, if required, should be limited as far as possible.
Before being brought into use these suggested draft mining regulations should be referred to the Crown Solicitor for any necessary revision, but from a technical point of view, any variations that may be considered necessary should be of form rather than of substance.
20. REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING EXISTING MINES.
I have made a detailed inspection of the mines working at present and my report and recommendations regarding each one are contained in Appendix II attached to this report.
21. ACCIDENTS.
As the control of mines will be under Government officers who are not acquainted with mining operations, it should be kept in mind that mining is a hazardous occupa- tion and that without a mines department accidents are only to be expected. With the suggested regulations in force however, the appointment of a mines overseer and the gradual training of unskilled labour the number of accidents should be reduced to a minimum in future.
22. I have to express my thanks to the management of the mines visited for transport to the mines and their co-operation in supplying information necessary for my investigations, and to Mr. R. J. Minnitt, Third Assistant Colonial Secretary, for producing a large number of Government files and plans and for his advice on matters of procedure.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
A. E. P. KERSHAW, Senior Inspector of Mines, Perak,
Federated Malay States.
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Appendix I
PROSPECTING AND MINING ORDINANCE, NO. 7 OF 1906.
MINING REGULATIONS MADE UNDER SECTION 5
OF ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1906.
1. No person shall carry on or do any act with a view to carrying on mining or prospecting operations except in accordance with the provisions of these regulations or with the authority of the lessee of any mining land.
Part I.
ROYALTY, PREMIA. RENTS AND FEES,
Unlawful Mining.
2. All minerals or metals won within the Colony shall be liable to such royalty Royalty.
as may from time to time be fixed by notification in the Gazette.
3. Total or partial remission of payment of any such royalty may be granted Remission either generally or in any particular case.
of Royalty.
4. Subject to any remission in exceptional cases, the premia, rents and fees to Premia be charged shall be as follows:
Rents Fees.
(i) MINING LEASE.-Premium of $10 per acre and rent at $2 per acre per
annum.
(ii) PROSPECTING LICENCES.-A fee of $25.
Part II.
MINING LEASES.
5. Any person wishing to apply for a mining lease shall lodge in the land office Application
of the district an application and plan setting out the position and approximate area of such land and giving the address of the applicant.
How Made.
6. The Land Officer of the district shall thereupon mark such application with How a distinctive number and shall note thereon the day of receipt and shall file the same to be dealt
Application in the land office according to the order in which they are received, but so that with. priority of application shall give no claim or priority of claim to a mining lease.
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7. Should an application be approved, the Land Officer may require any ap- Procedure plicant to make a deposit of such amount as to cover the cost of survey and emplace- approval, ment of permanent boundary marks.
8. (i) Upon receipt of a certified plan showing the area of the land approved Preparation, and position of all boundary marks the Land Officer shall cause to be prepared a min- signing and
delivery of ing lease in duplicate in the form of Schedule I with such plan delineated thereon and mining lease. shall call upon the applicant to sign such mining lease.
(ii) Whenever such mining lease has been signed by the Governor, the Land Officer shall call upon the applicant to accept such mining lease and pay any sum due and shall file one duplicate copy thereof in a book to be called the "Register of Mining Leases" and the lessee shall sign a receipt for such mining lease.
9. Every mining lease shall vest in the lessee thereof in the absence of any Implied express condition to the contrary the following rights, and such other rights, if any, as rights of may be expressly set forth therein:
lessee.
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