AMENDED REGULATION UNDER "THE MINING ACT, 1886" (COPY OF).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1890 Session I, C-09

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1890. NEW ZEALAND.

AMENDED REGULATION UNDER "THE MINING ACT, 1886" (COPY OF).

Laid upon the Table of both Houses of the General Assembly in compliance with the terms of Section 276 of the said Act.

Amended Begulation under " The Mining Act, 1886."

Onslow, Governor. Whbbbas by "The Mining Act, 1886" (hereinafter termed "the said Act") it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said Act, from time to time to make, alter, amend, or revoke rules and regulations for all and any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated : And whereas it is expedient to revoke the regulation hereinafter specified, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof : Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities in that behalf conferred by the said Act, do hereby revoke regulation number twenty-three of the regulations issued on the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the sixteenth day of May then instant, which said regulation relates to forfeiture of licensed holdings and special claims, and in lieu thereof do hereby make and substitute the following, namely : — Licensed Holdings and Special Claims may be forfeited. 23. If any licensee or special claimholder fails or neglects to perform any condition contained or implied in his license or special-claim grant, or makes default for the space of sixty days in the payment of the required license-fee, application may be made by any person for the forfeiture of such license or special claim in the form or to the effect set forth in Schedule 4 hereto. A copy of such application shall be served personally on the licensee or special claimholder, or in such other manner as the Warden may direct, or, at the discretion of the Warden, may be posted on some conspicuous portion of the ground for such time as the Warden may direct, together with a notice in the form or to the effect set forth in Schedule 5 hereto. At the inquiry in the notice mentioned, the Warden shall take evidence in relation to the application, and the licensee or special claimholder's answer to the neglect complained of; and shall decide on the whole facts of the case as to whether the land included in such license or special claim shall be forfeited or not. As witness my hand, at Wellington, in the colony aforesaid, this twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety. Thos. Fergus, Minister of Mines. [Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, nil; printing (1,200 copies), 15s.]

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