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MINING
RIGHTS REGULATION (AMENDMENT)
ORDINANCE, 1957
(NO. 31 OF
1957)
GOLD COAST
NO. 31 OF 1957.
Section
1. Short Title.
2. Amendment of
Section 2 of Principal Ordinance.
3. Amendment of
Section 3 of Principal Ordinance.
4. Amendment of
Section 5 of Principal Ordinance.
5. Amendment of
Heading to Part 3 of Principal
Ordinance.
6. Amendment of
Section 6 of Principal Ordinance.
7. Amendment of
Section 7 of Principal Ordinance.
8. Amendment of
Section 8 of Principal Ordinance.
9. Amendment of
Section 11(1) of Principal
Ordinance.
AN ORDINANCE to
amend the Mining Rights Regulation
Ordinance (Chapter 153).
Date of
Commencement: [4th March, 1957.]
BE IT ENACTED
by the Legislature of the Gold
Coast, as follows:—
Section
1—Short Title.
This Ordinance
may be cited as the Mining Rights
Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance,
1957, and shall be read as one
with the Mining Rights Regulation
Ordinance, hereinafter referred to
as the principal Ordinance.
Section
2—Amendment of Section 2 of
Principal Ordinance.
Section 2 of
the principal Ordinance is hereby
amended —
(i) by deleting
the definition of "Concession
land";
(ii) by
inserting after the definition of
"Gold Coast" the following new
definition:—
"'lessee' means
any person to whom a right to
conduct mining operations is
granted under a mining lease;";
(iii) by
deleting the definition of
"Mining" and substituting the
following definition:—
"'mining'
includes dredging, boring for
mineral oil and any other
operations for winning or
obtaining minerals or precious
stones;";
(iv) by
inserting after the definition of
"Mining concession" the following
new definitions:—
" 'mining land'
means land subject to a mining
concession or mining lease;
'mining lease'
means any writing whereby any
right is granted to conduct mining
operations in land under
territorial waters;"; and
(v) by
inserting in the definition of
"Mining rights" immediately after
the word "concession" the words
"or mining lease".
Section
3—Amendment of Section 3 of
Principal Ordinance.
Section 3 of
the principal Ordinance is hereby
amended by substituting for the
word "concession" occurring in
subsection (2) the word "mining".
Section
4—Amendment of Section 5 of
Principal Ordinance.
Section 5 of
the principal Ordinance is hereby
amended—
(i) by
substituting for the word
"concession" occurring in
paragraph (1) and where it first
occurs in paragraph (4) the word
"mining";
(ii) by
inserting after the word
"concessions" occurring in
paragraph (3) the comma and words
"mining leases"; and
(iii) by
inserting after the word "holder"
occurring in paragraph (4) the
words and commas "or lease, as the
case may be,".
Section
5—Amendment of Heading to Part 3
of Principal Ordinance.
The heading to
Part 3 of the principal Ordinance
is hereby amended by adding the
words "AND LESSEES" after the word
"HOLDERS".
Section
6—Amendment of Section 6 of
Principal Ordinance.
Section 6 of
the principal Ordinance is hereby
amended by inserting after the
word "holder" where it first
occurs therein the words "and
lessee" and where it next occurs
the words "or lessee".
Section
7—Amendment of Section 7 of
Principal Ordinance.
Section 7 of
the principal Ordinance is hereby
amended by substituting for the
expression "concession land"
occurring therein and in the
marginal note the expression
"mining land".
Section
8—Amendment of Section 8 of
Principal Ordinance.
Section 8 of
the principal Ordinance is hereby
amended by inserting after the
word "holder" the words "and
lessee" and substituting for the
expression "concession land" the
expression "mining land".
Section
9—Amendment of Section 11(1) of
Principal Ordinance.
Subsection (1)
of section 11 of the principal
Ordinance is hereby amended—
(i) by
inserting in paragraph (d) after
the word "holders" the words "and
lessees"; and
(ii) by
inserting immediately after
paragraph (d) the following new
paragraph (dd):—
"(dd) For
prescribing accounts and records
to be kept by concession holders
and lessees;".
This printed
impression has been carefully
compared by me with the Bill which
has passed the Legislative
Assembly, and found by me to be a
true and correctly printed copy of
the said Bill.
Clerk to the
Legislative Assembly.
K. B. AYENSU
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