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68. The owner of any claim, right, title, interest, or privilege not being a licensed holding, shall, within seven days after abandonment or relinquishment of the same, give notice in writing thereof to the Mining Registrar.

69. It shall be lawful for the Mining Registrar, upon the certificate of the Mining Inspector that any claim, machine, residence, business site, or other authorised holding has been forfeited or abandoned, or upon being notified by the Warden or Mining Inspector of a decision declaring any forfeiture under Parts VII or VIII of the Act, or upon the written surrender of the registered owner of any claim or other authorised holding, or of any interest therein, to make a corresponding entry in such Register, and close the Register against all future entries in respect of such claim, holding, or interest.

70. A memorial of any encumbrance or lien upon any claim, right, title, or interest, or any share or interest therein, in the form in the Schedule hereto annexed, marked A4, may be registered against such claim, right, title, or interest, an attested copy of the instrument creating such encumbrance being at the same time deposited with the Registrar; and any transfer or assignment of such claim, right, title, or interest, or share, or interest therein, shall be subject to such encumbrance or lien until a discharge thereof in the form in the Schedule hereto annexed, marked A5, shall have been duly registered.

71. There shall be kept in the Mining Registrar’s office a Book, to be called the Address Book, in which shall be entered at the time of registration of any claim or share, or interest therein, the address of the owner of such claim, share, or interest, if resident within the mining district, and if not, of some agent residing therein; and all notices required to be given to such owner shall be deemed to be duly given by being delivered at or posted to such address, and if no such address be so entered, the posting of any notice on the claim shall be deemed to be good service thereof.

72. Any person requiring information in respect of any claim, right, title or interest, or of any interest therein, may obtain the same or a certificate thereof from the Mining Registrar on payment of the respective fees mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lost Documents.

73. On being satisfied of the loss or destruction of any miner’s right, license, or other document herein referred to, the Warden may cause to be issued a duplicate thereof, which shall have equal validity with the original document.

Depasturing Cattle.

74. No person shall depasture any cattle on Crown lands within the district, unless he be the holder of a miner’s right or business license, and shall also hold a certificate in the form hereto annexed marked Schedule A6, showing that he has paid a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each head of cattle so depastured.

Forfeited Leaseholds.

75. All lands which shall hereafter come under the operation of “The Gold Mining Districts Act, 1873,” within the district through the forfeiture of any leasehold rights now subsisting under “The Goldfields Act, 1866,” shall be dealt with as if such lands were forfeited lands open for application under Section one hundred and six of the said “Gold Mining Districts Act, 1873.”

Non-payment of Sums due.

76. If the annual payment in respect of any licensed holding, water-race, dam, or reservoir shall not be paid when due, or within sixty days thereafter, or if the annual payment due in respect of any machine, business, or residence site shall not be paid when due, the Receiver of Revenue shall give notice thereof to the Mining Inspector in the form hereto annexed marked Schedule A7.

Inspection of Machinery, &c.

77. The Mining Inspector shall visit and inspect all steam engines, steam boilers, and other machinery used in mining operations in the Hauraki Gold Mining District, and may give instructions for the safer working of the same; he may also visit any mine and other workings, and give instructions for the safer working of the same. And it shall be the duty of the person to whom any such instruction shall be given to obey the same.

Dangerous Shafts or Workings.

78. No person shall remove or injure the covering or enclosure of any closed up or dangerous shaft or workings, without permission in writing from the Warden.

Forms.

79. The forms in the Schedules hereto, and such other forms as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Warden or Mining Registrar, shall be used in respect of the various matters therein referred to.

Fees.

80. The fees in the Schedule hereto annexed shall be taken and charged in the respective offices therein mentioned.

Penalties for Breach of Regulations.

81. If any person shall commit any breach, whether by way of omission or by way of commission, of any of the foregoing Rules and Regulations, he shall forfeit and pay for such breach a fine or penalty not exceeding ten pounds for the first offence and not exceeding twenty pounds for any subsequent offence.