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Appendix A. 



General rights 

 conferred by 

 claim. 



(3) A licence shall not be issued to any person known to be a 

 minor, and if any licence is issued to a minor it shall be null and raid : 

 Provided always that where the right to obtain a licence devolves by 

 will or on intestacy to a minor, a licence may be issued to the guardian 

 of such minor, and such guardian shall thereupon become subject to 

 all the obligations imposed by these Regulations on the holder of a 

 licence. 



(4) The Governor may direct that a licence shall not issue to any 

 person who has been convicted of any indictable offence, or of the 

 larceny of gold or of any offence under the Mining Ordinance, 190.3, 

 or any Regulations made thereunder or against >vhom any unsatisfied 

 judgment for labourers' wages exists, or against whom any judgment 

 or sentence for any ill-treatment or neglect of any labourer employed 

 by him has been given, and thereupon the location shall be void and 

 the land open to location by any other person. 



(5) No licence shall be issued in the name of any firm, syndicate, 

 or partnership, unless the name or names and addresses of the persons 

 constituting such firm, syndicate, or partnership are stated in wi'iting 

 signed by such persons to the Commissioner, and such persons shall 

 for all purposes, until transfer of the licence, be subject to all the 

 obligations imposed by these regulations on the holders of such 

 licences. 



(6) If the applicant for a licence does not, within 14 days after 

 the last Saturday's advertisement of his apjilication, or within the 

 same period after the removal of any opposition entered, pay the rent 

 (if any) payable in advance for such licence, such licence shall not bo 

 issued, and the application for such licence shall be declared abandoned 

 by the Commissioner by notice in the Gazette for three consecutive 

 Saturdays, and the land referred to therein shall be open to location 

 by any person. 



15. — (1) A licence, so long as the holder thei^eof complies with the 

 Mining Ordinance, 1903, and with the Mining Regulations, shall, 

 subject to its terms, confer the right to the use and enjoyment of the 

 surface included within the lines of the claim, and to all veins, lodes, 

 ledges, and deposits beloAv such surface, within the vertical planes in 

 which the surface boundaries lie : 



Provided always that, subject to the provisions hereinafter 

 contained relating to a path or trail, the occupation of all lands for 

 the purpose of being worked under these Regulations shall be subject 

 to the right of any person to pass through or along any road or path 

 on such land which gives access to any land beyond, to which such 

 person desires and is entitled to go, and to the rights of any person 

 duly authorised to cut timber or take forest produce. 



Eevocation for 

 non-working. 



Dnratjon of 

 licence. 



Duration^ etc., of Licence. 



16. Any licence may be revoked by the Governor-in-Council 

 under and in accordance with the provisions of section 32 of the 

 Mining Ordinance, 1903, if the holder thereof ceases to work the claim 

 to the satisfaction of any OflRcer appointed by the Governor to inspect 

 the same. 



17. Subject to the provisions of the Mining Ordinance, 1903, 

 and to these Regulations every licence shall continue in force so long 

 as the rent payable in respect thereof is regularly paid. 



