PROSPECTING AND MINING ORDINANCE, 1906

PROSPECTING AND MINING ORDINANCE, 1906

No. 7 of 1906.

An Ordinance to enpower the Governor to grant licences to
search for and prove minerals, and to grant licences and
leases of land for the purpose of working mines and
minerals.

[29th June, 1906]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prospecting and
Mining Ordinance, 1906.

2. The Governor in Council may, at his absolute discretion
and upon such ternis and conditions as he thinks fit, grant
licence and authority to any person to search for and procure in
and from any Crown land specimens of such metals or minerals
as may be specified in such licence, whether such land be then
held under lease from the Crown or otherwise: Provided that
no such licence shall be granted for a period longer than six
months, renewable or not as to the Governor in Council may
seem fit.

3. The Governor in Council mav, at his absolute discretion
and upon such terms and conditions as he thinks fit, grant licence
and authority to any person to get and carry away in and from
any Crown land such metals or minerals as ma be specified in
such licence, whether such land be then held under lease from
the Crown or otherwise : Provided that no such licence shall be
granted for a period longer than one year, renewable or not as
to the Governor in Council may seem fit.

4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant and agree
to grant, for any term not exceeding seventy-five years (or for
such longer term as a Secretary of State may authorize), in the
name and on behalf of His Majesty, such leases as may be
declared by the Governor in Council to be expedient to be granted
for the purpose of working such mines, metals or minerals as may
be specified in such leases, upon such terms and subject to such
conditions as the Governor in Council may in each case determine.

5.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to
make regulations for the purposes of this Ordinance. Such
regulations may fix the fees and rents and royalties to be paid
in respect of such licences or leases, and may provide for the
recovery of such fees, rents and royalties.

(2) Such regulations may impose for any breach thereof
such fine not exceeding two hundred dollars as the Governor in
Council may think fit, and any such fine may be recovered
summarily.
[Originally No. 7 of 1906. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Power to grant prospecting licences. Power to grant mining licences. Power to grant mining leases. Regulations.

[Originally No. 7 of 1906. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Power to grant prospecting licences. Power to grant mining licences. Power to grant mining leases. Regulations.

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