A.—sb.

Mining.

fifty-seven hereof, and thereafter such license shall not be liable to be declared forfeited or abandoned by non-payment of such rents, royalties, or license fees. Surrender* or Determination of Outstanding Leases or Licenses granted by Native or other Owners prior to Acquisition of Land by the 5 Crown. 60. In any case where land at any time acquired by the Crown from the Native or other owners thereof is subject to any valid estate or interest lawfully created therein by lease or license from such owners at any time prior to such acquisition, and by reason thereof the land is \q not Crown land open for mining, the following provisions shall apply : — (a.) The Governor, on behalf of His Majesty, may at any time, and upon such terms as to compensation as may be agreed on, accept the surrender of any such lease or license as to either the whole or any part of the land comprised therein, 15 and, in the case of surrender as to part, may make such reduction as he deems equitable in the rent (if any) thereafter payable in respect of the residue. (0.) Such surrender may be made by memorandum under the hands of the Governor and the lessee or licensee. 20 (c.) Such memorandum may be by indorsement on the lease or license, or by separate instrument, and, in the case of surrender as to part, shall set forth the part surrendered, and the terms and conditions upon which the surrender is made. (d.) For the purposes of registration such memorandum shall, 25 as the circumstances require, be deemed to be a deed within the meaning of " The Deeds Registration Act, 1868," or an instrument within the meaning of " The Land Transfer Act, 1885," and may be registered accordingly. (e.) If the surrender is as to part of the land, the lease or license 30 shall thereafter be read and construed subject to the terms and conditions contained in the memorandum of surrender, and the District Land Registrar or Registrar of Deeds, as the case may be, shall, without fee, make all such entries in his register as are necessary in order to record the same. 35 (/.) The land surrendered shall be deemed to have been thereby resumed by His Majesty for mining purposes, and in every such case the provisions of section eighty-mne hereof, and also the Second Schedule hereto, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply. 40 61. Any such lease or license may, whenever the Governor thinks fit, be determined for mining purposes as to either the whole or any part of the land comprised therein, and for that purpose the following provisions shall apply :— («0 Such determination shall be effected by resuming the land 45 for mining purposes, and all the provisions of this Act relating to resumption shall, mutatis mutandis, apply accordingly. 6.) If only part of the land is resumed, the lessee or licensee may surrender the lease or license as to the residue, under the 50 provisions for surrender hereinbefore contained ;

Provisions subject to which Governor may accept surrender of outstanding leases of Native or other lands. 1898, No. 38, sec. 59 1899, No. 29, sec. »

Determination of lease by resumption of land for mining. 1898, No. 38, sec. 60

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