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(5.) Such other descriptions of mining privileges, in respect of water or land as the Warden thinks necessary for facilitating mining operations, or effectuating the purposes of the Mining Act. 57. The terms and conditions upon which the aforesaid mining privileges may be granted, and shall be deemed to be held, shall in every case include such terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the Mining Act and these regulations, as the Warden thinks fit to impose when granting the licenses. Surrender for Purposes of Exchange. 58. With respect to the surrender of title for purposes of exchange under section 128 of the Mining Act, the following provisions shall apply : — (1.) The application need not be publicly notified unless the Warden otherwise directs. (2.) The consent of the Minister, under subsection (24) of section 136 of the Mining Act, to the corresponding mining privilege shall be necessary in the cases therein mentioned. (3.) The license for the corresponding mining privilege shall be in the ordinary form, with the addition of a memorandum to be noted or indorsed on the license under the hand of the Warden and the seal of the Court, specifying— (a.) The fact that the license is issued in exchange for a surrendered mining privilege, and the name, description, and registered number of the surrendered privilege ; (b.) The priorities, encumbrances, liens, and interests referred to in subsection (8) of section 128 of the Mining Act. Amalgamation of Claims. 59. The provisions of the last-preceding clause of these regulations shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of amalgamation of claims under section 129 of the Mining Act: Provided that before granting the application the Warden shall be satisfied that there has been expended in mining operations on each of the claims not less then £10. Eenewal of Licenses for Mining Privileges. 60. Subject, in the case of tunnel prospecting licenses, to the provisions of clause 11 of these regulations, the following provisions shall apply with respect to the renewal of licenses for mining privileges :— (1.) The application for the renewal may be in the form numbered in the First Schedule hereto, and shall be filed in the office of the Eegistrar within not more than two months nor less than one month before the expiration of the current term by effluxion of time, but need not be notified or advertised. (2.) The renewal shall be effected by issuing a fresh license in the ordinary form, expressed on its face to be issued in renewal of the former license, and with the same priorities, and subject to the same encumbrances, liens, and interests. Eegistration of Mining Privileges and of Instruments affecting the Same. Begister, and Begistration Office. 61. (1.) The register shall be in the form numbered in the First Schedule hereto. (2.) The register may be divided into parts as follows : —Part I. : Claims. Part II.: Waterrights. Part 111. : Business-site licenses. Part IV. : Eesidence-site licenses. Part V. : Specialsite licenses. Part VI. : Mineral licenses. Part VII. : Miscellaneous. And registrations may be effected accordingly, nevertheless without affecting the numerical sequence of the instruments registered. 62. Every register existing at the time of the coming into operation of the Mining Act shall so continue, but no fresh registrations shall be recorded therein; and in every case where, in any new register opened under the Mining Act, any registration relates to any mining privilege, or interest therein, already registered in such existing register, the Eegistrar shall, by note on the allotted folium of the new register, give such reference to the registration in the said existing register as will afford reasonable facilities for search. 63. (1.) The office of registration of a mining privilege granted under the Mining Act shall be the office of the Eegistrar to whom the same is transmitted by the Warden for registration and issue, as provided by section 141 of the Mining Act. (2.) The office of the Eegistrar shall in every case be the office of the Warden's Court. (3.) In the case of mining privileges granted by the Warden prior to the coming into operation of the Mining Act, but not then registered, the office of registration shall be the office of the Eegistrar at the Courthouse where the same was granted. (4.) The office of registration of every ordinary claim held otherwise than under license shall be the office of the Eegistrar fixed by the Warden for the registration of such claims in the locality in which the claim is situate. (5.) The office of registration of every transfer or other instrument affecting any mining privilege shall be the office where the mining privilege itself is registered. 64. The registration of an instrument shall not be deemed to be invalid by reason merely of being effected in the wrong office, unless the Warden is satisfied that it has resulted in deceiving any person, and thereby actually prejudicing his rights. Mode of Begistration of Instruments. 65. In the case of each register all instruments shall be registered in the order in which they are deposited with the Eegistrar for registration, and shall be numbered consecutively in the register, commencing with the number 1.