MINING PRIVILEGES.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13935, 18 July 1917, Page 8

MINING PRIVILEGES.

PROTECTIVE REGULATIONS. (Per Press Association,) WELLINGTON, July 10. Regulations for the protection of mining privileges were published in a Gazette Extraordinary to-day, They will lie known as "The Mining Privileges Protection Regulations, 1917," and provide that every registered mining privilege under the Mining Act, 1908, which is protected under these regulations, shall be free from all liability, abandonment, or forfeiture from, any cause arising during the period of protection other than the default in the payment of royalty, rent, or license fCe.s, Protection miller the regulations for any mining privilege may be granted by any Military Service Board under the Military Service Act, 1916, on hearing and the dismissal by it of any appeal under that Act if the board is of the opinion that such protection is expedient, having regard to the conditions created by the compulsory military service of a reservist w;hose calling up is appealed against on the grant of such, protection. The chairman of the Military Service Board shall transmit to the mining registrar of the district in which' the mining privilege is situated, the certificate of protection, and the registrar shall thereupou register the certificate in the register of mining privileges. Protection under these regulations shall take effect as soon as the certificate of protection has been received by. the registrar, and shall, unless sooner cancelled under the regulations, continue during the present war pd for a period of twolvo months thereafter. Protection granted under the regulations may any time bo cancelled by the Minister of. Mines on. the recommendation of a Military Service Board,'' : |