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(d) Shall declare the concessions to be valid subject to the 

 terms of the certificate of validity ; 



(e) Shall be signed by the president of the Court making 

 the final order for the issue of the certificate of validity or his 

 successor in office ; and 



(/) May be in the form in Schedule C. hereto. 



20. No certificate of vaUdity shall be issued in respect of any 

 concession which purports to confer any right or interest in or over any 

 land for a longer period than 99 years or in respect of any concession 

 which purports to confer an option of acquiring any such right or 

 interest for a longer period than three years. The Court may reduce 

 the term of any concession so as to bring it within the limits aforesaid. 



21. (i) No concession shall be valid if made before the coming 

 into force of this Ordinance which purports to confer on any person 

 rights over an area larger than that which he is entitled to hold under 

 sub-section (2) hereof or if made after the coming into force of this 

 Ordinance which purports to confer any rights over on area exceeding : 



(b) In the case of land in respect of which rights to cut 

 timber or collect rubber, or relating to other products of the 

 soil are conferred, twenty square miles. 



(2) No person shall hold at one time concessions the aggregate 

 area of the land comprising in which shall exceed, in the case of mining 

 rights, twenty scjuare miles, or in the case of rights relating to timber, 

 rubber or other products of the soil, forty square miles. 



28. (i) No person shall prospect within Ashanti without licence 

 from the Chief Commissioner in the form set forth in Schedule D. 

 hereto and ever}^ such licence shall be subject to a stamp duty of ^5 ; 

 provided that the holder of a mining licence with respect to any land 

 and those under him may prospect on such land without first obtaining 

 a licence under this section. Every person contravening this sub- 

 section shall be guilty of an offence and be liable to a penalty not 

 exceeding fifty pounds. 



(2) Every prospecting licence shall be made out in the name of the 

 individual applying for the same and shall not be transferable. 



(3) It shall be lawful for any officer to demand from any person 

 prospecting (not being the holder of a mining licence or those under 

 him prospecting on land included in such mining licence) the production 

 of a licence to prospect. If such person shall not produce a licence 

 duly granted to him to prospect within the limits within which he is 

 prospecting and permit the officer demanding the production thereof 

 to read such licence, it shall be lawful for such officer to require such 

 person to declare to him immediately his name and place of residence 

 and if such person shall refuse to declare his name and place of residence 

 as aforesaid he shall be guilty of an offence and be Uable to a penalty 



