Second Session, 44th General Assembly

49 Elizabeth II, 2000

BILL 14

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

MINERAL ACT

Received and Read the First

Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE PAUL D. DICKS, Q.C.

Minister of Mines and Energy

Ordered to be printed by the

Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Clause 1 of this Bill would amend the Mineral

Act by adding a new

section 25.2 to provide for conversion of

full map staked claims within an existing ground staked licence to a

map staked licence and the surrender of the remaining areas.

Clause 2 of the Bill would amend

section 27 of the

Act to deal with the surrender of fractional map staked claims.

Clause 3 of the Bill would amend Condition 2 of

the Conditions of Licence of the Act to clarify the minister's

authority to grant multiple extensions of time for assessment work.

Clause 4 of the Bill would provide for the

amendment to

section 27 of the Act to come into force with

retroactive effect to September 1, 1995.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MINERAL ACT

Analysis

1. S.25.2 Added

Conversion to map staked licence

2. S.27 Amdt.

Fractional map staked claims

3. Sch. Amdt.

4. Commencement

Be it enacted by the

Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative

Session convened, as follows:

RSN 1990 cM-12

as amended

1. The Mineral Act is amended by adding

immediately after

section 25.1 the following:

Conversion to map staked licence

25.2

(1) The holder of a ground staked licence may

during the currency of the licence apply to have a map staked

licence issued in respect of a full map staked claim within the area

included in the ground staked licence on the condition that the

holder surrender the area outside the boundaries of the full map

staked claims in accordance with sections 25 and 27 of the Act as

applicable.

(2) The date of issuance of a new map staked

licence shall be considered to be the same as for the original

ground staked licence.

Section 27 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (2) the following:

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), when all or

part of the land contained within the area of a licence, lease or

grant is surrendered or otherwise becomes available for staking, an

adjacent fractional map staked claim included in a coterminous map

staked licence shall become a full claim, regardless of who holds

the map staked licence.

(1) Condition 2(1) of the

Schedule of the Act is

amended by striking out the words "may grant an extension of time

but that extension shall" and substituting the words "may grant one

or more extensions of time but each extension shall".

(2) Condition 2(1)(

a) of the

Schedule to the

Act is amended by striking out the words "for the next 12 month

period".

(3) Condition 2(2) of the

Schedule to the Act

is repealed and the following substituted:

(2) The security deposit referred to in paragraph

(1)(

d) is given to ensure that the assessment work is completed and

where the work is not completed within the required time and the

licensee does not obtain another extension of time, the deposit is

forfeit to the Crown.

Commencement

Section 2 of this Act is considered to have come

into force on September 1, 1995.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer