Mining Lease Validating Act of 1884 No 34a (NSW)

No. XVII.

An Act to enable the Governor to declare Leases and applications for Leases under the "Mining' Act of 1874" and the regu­ lations thereunder valid. [21st October, 1884.]

WH E R E A S by reason of the uncertainty of the boundary-line dividing some Mining Districts from one another applications for

Leases under the "Mining Act of 1874 " may have been lodged in the

wrong district and for other reasons may therefore be held to be invalid And whereas it is expedient that power should bo conferred upon the Governor under such circumstances to declare such applications and leases issued in pursuance of the same to be valid Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:—

1. The Governor may by a Proclamation in the Government

Gazette declare that any application for a lease authorized by the " Mining Act of 1874" and which may have been lodged in the wrong district cither before or after the passing of this Act shall not by reason thereof alone or by reason of the mode of taking possession not being in accordance with the Act or regulations be deemed to be invalid and no application or lease granted or promised in satisfaction of any such application shall be invalid by reason of such application having been made in the wrong district or by reason of the mode of taking possession not being in accordance with the Act or regulations Provided always that the provisions of this Act shall not affect the rights of any person acquired before the twenty-third day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

2. This Act may be cited as the " Mining Lease Validating

Act of 1884."