Bill 21 — A Bill To Amend the Mines and Minerals Act (Legislature 14, Session 2)

L14 S2 1977

Alberta — Bills

No. 21 2nd Session, 14th Legislature, Alberta 9 Elizabeth II BILL 21 A Bill to amend The Mines and Minerals Act HON. MR. MANNING Printed by L. B. WALL, Printer to the Queen's MO!lt Excellent M"juty. Edmonton, Alberta, 1961

Explanatory Note 2. The effect of the amendment will be to remove the restriction on the acreage that may be acquired by anyone person under coal mining leases.

Section 202, subsection (1) presently reads: "202.

(1) The maximum area of a location shall be two thousand five hundred and sixty acres and no person shall be permitted to acquire a greater area except by transfer." 3. Under sections 73 and 74 of The Oil and Gas Conservation Act, the Oil and Gas Conservation Board makes orders for the present or future pooling of tracts within a spacing unit. Clause (

b) of

section 270 is new and will provide the basis for the pay ment of royalty to the Crown where the whole or part of a location is within a spacing unit subject to a pooling order which provides for the allocation for production on other than an acreage basis.

Section 270 presently reads: "270. Where the spacing unit lof a well is only partially contained in a location, the royalty to b~ paid to the Crown shall be in the proportion that the acreage of the part of the spacing unit contained in the location bears to the whole acreage of the spacing unit, and if the well is not on the location, it shall be deemed to be on the location."

Section 300, subsection (3) is amended for the purposes of clarification. It presently reads: "

(3) Notwithstanding the other provisions lof this Act or the provisions and terms of any regulation, agreement or mineral claim, where in the opinion of the Lieutenant Governor in Council it is desirable to do so, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may authorize the Minister to enter into an agreement for calculation of the royalty payable on the mineral produced under the unit operation in respect of any tract that is subject to the payment of a royalty to the Crown." 5. It is anticipated that there will be future cases where the substance to be injected to an underground formation will be other than a "mineral substance or water".

Section 303, subsec tion (1) presently reads: "303.

(1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may authorize the Minister to enter. into an agreement for the injection, storage, recycling or reproduction III or from an underground formation of any mineral substance or water."

BILL No. 21 of 1961

An Act to amend The Mines and Minerals Act (Assented to , 1961) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Mines and Minerals Act, being

chapter 204 of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended.

Section 202, subsection (1) is amended by striking out the words "and no person shall be permitted to acquire a greater area except by transfer".

Section 270 is struck out and the following is sub stituted: 270. Where the spacing unit of a well is only partially contained in a location, the royalty to be paid to the Crown shall be (

a) in the proportion that the acreage of the part of the spacing unit contained in the location bears to the whole acreage of the spacing unit, or (

b) where an order under

section 73 or 74 of The Oil and Gas Consel'va,tion Act is in effect with respect to the spacing unit, in the proportion that the share of production allocated to the part of the spacing unit contained in the location bears to the whole of the production from the spacing unit, and if the well is not on the location, it shall be deemed to be on the location.

Section 300, subsection (3) is amended by striking out the words "the unit operation" and by substituting the words "a unit operation". :i.

Section ;j03, subsection (1) is amended by striking out the words "any mineral substance or water" and hy sub stituting the words "any substance". 6. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 21 SECOND SESSION FOURTEEN'TH LEGISLATURE 9 ELIZABETH II 1961 BILL

An Act to amend The Mines and Minerals Act Received and read the First time ......................................... . Second time ....................................... . Third time ............... . HON. MR. MANNING Title: 1961 (14th, 2nd) Bill 21,

An Act to amend The Mines and Minerals Act

Document details

Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L14 S2 1977
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L14 S2 1977
Language	en
Format	json
Source	PROVINCIAL
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