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9. Where any dispute arises as regards the person who is to be Rule of decision 

 deemed the first applicant for a licence, the person first locating the appUcant. 

 claim in accordance with these Regulations shall be deemed the first 

 applicant. 



10. Any claim located by any person under a prospecting licence Claim located 

 obtained in contravention of Regulation 3 (7) hereof or by any person ^^^ employe. 

 who at the time of such location is in the employment of the holder of 



a prospecting, or claim licence or concession shall be deemed to have 

 been located for and on behalf of his employer. 



11. On receiving the notice and application, the Commissioner Publication of 

 shall cause the same to be published in the Gazette for three successive {Jjc^tfon. 

 Saturdays, in order to allow of any opposition to the issue of a licence 



therefor being made, in the manner hereinafter provided. 



12. All gold or precious stones obtained by any person from any Right to srold 

 land, pending the issue of a licence, after locating a claim, shall be provisfonal 

 subject to the same regulations and shall be recorded and dealt with working of 

 in all respects as if it or they had been obtained after the issue of a clami. 

 licence. 



Objections to Issue of Licences. 



13. — (1) Any person who desires to object to the issue of a Making df 

 licence shall file at the office of the Commissioner his reasons of ^rg^^lng of 

 opposition in writing in duplicate on or before the last Saturday on claim licence, 

 which the application is required to be published, and shall deposit at 

 the same time a sum of twenty-five dollars in respect of each licence 

 to which objection is made to meet expenses, other than those of the 

 Officer who decides the case, such sum to be dealt with as such Officer 

 may decide : Provided that where more than one licence is objected 

 to by the same person, the Commissioner in his discretion may reduce 

 the amount to be deposited in respect of the second and subsequent 

 licences. 



(2) Every such person shall be bound, within three days after 

 such filing, to serve at the registered address of the applicant for the 

 licence a copy of such reasons ; and the procedure shall, mutafis 

 iii/itaudis^ be in accordance with the provisions of Part XI. of these 

 Regulations. 



Issue of Licences. 

 14. — (1) If there is no opposition to the issue of a licence, or if Restrictions on 



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there is opposition but it is decided in favour of the applicant, and etc. 

 the boundaries of the claim have been verified to the satisfaction of porm No. 7. 

 the Commissioner a licence may be issued for the land so located in 

 Form No. 7 in the First Schedule to these Regulations. 



(2) Every applicant for a Claim Licence when required by the 

 Warden to do so shall either by himself or by some other duly 

 authorised person deputed by him, point out to the Warden the 

 ])Osition and boundai'ies of the Claim for which a Licence is sought, 

 and if such applicant fails to have such claim pointed out and verified 

 within six weeks after the AVarden has udtified him of his readiness 

 to verify the location, the application for the same shall be cancelled 

 and a notice to this effect shall be published by the Commissioner in 

 the Gazette and thereupon the location shall be null and void and the 

 land open to location by any person. 



