Mineral Leases Act 1865 (SA)

ANNO VICESIMO NON0

No. 10.

An Act to amend the Laws r eL t i y to the leas iy of the Waste Lands

of the Crown witltir~	the Province of South Australia, for
Minera E purposes.

[Asscntcd to, 16th March, 1866.1

AS it is desirable to autlrorize the Governor to demise Preamble.

W""""	Gold-Be it therefore Enacted, by the G o v e n l o r - i n - e f of the Pro-
the Waste Lands of the Crown for the purpose of Mining for vince of South Australia, by and with the advice. and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Pro-
vince, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Notwithstancling anything contained in the Waste Lands Act lands Governor for the may parpose demigo

No. 6 of 1857, or the " Mineral Lenses Act of 1862," i t shall be of miningforgold.

lawful for the Governor to demise, for the purpose of mining for

gold, to any person applying for the same, any portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the said Province, not exceeding twenty acres, for any period not exceeding fourteen. years, upon payment

of such rent and entering into such covenants for the due working

the mines of gold, or of gold-bearing minerals on the said lands, as

may be described by any regulations to be made in pursuance of

this Act.

2. I t shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice and Execufive and Council

consent of the Executive Council, from time to time to make, vary, and	r n q m d e r ~ g u l u t i o ~
alter any regulations respecting the terms and conditions upon which

leases of land shall be granted for the purpose of mining for gold,	-
respecting the form of applications for, and defining the position of,
the lands proposed to be leased, and respecting all matters and

K thifi gs

29O VICTORIB, No. 10.

Jfineral Leases Act.-1865-6.

things necessary to give effect to the same, and every such regu- lation, when published in the South Australian Government Gazette,

shall have force of law.

ReglJationa to be laid

before Parliament.	3. A copy of all regulations made under the authority of this Act shall be laid before the Parliament within fourteen days from the publication thereof, if the 'arliament be then sitting; and if the Parliament shall not be then sitting, then within fourteen days from
its next sitting for the dispatch of business.

%-ulationainQazedf6	4. The regulations published in the Government Gazette of the
of 11th January, 1866,

to be as valid as if eleventh day of January, 18G6, shall have the same force and effect,

madawderthisAct. for all purposes, as if this Act had been passed previous to such

"L publication, and such regulations had bcen made in pursuance of and under the authority hereof; and the said regulations may be varied and altered from time to timc, as hereinbeforc provided; and all persons who have heretofore made claims under and complied with such regulations, shall bc entitled to have leases granted'to them under the provisions hercof, according to such claims.

Sbort title,	5. This Act may be cited as	Mineral Leases Act, 1865-6."
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In the name and on behalf of the Queen, I hereby assent to

this Act.

D. DALY, Governor,

Adolnide : Printed by authority, by W. C. Cox, Governmant Printer, Victor ia-sp~'~.

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