✨ Gold-fields Regulations
RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE
NELSON SOUTH-WEST GOLD-FIELDS.
I.—PRELIMINARY REGULATIONS.
- INTERPRETATION CLAUSE.
In the construction, and for the purposes of these Regulations, the following terms shall, if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter, the respective meanings hereby assigned to them (that is to say):
The word "Warden" shall mean Warden, Commissioner, Resident Magistrate, or any other officer entrusted with the superintendence of the Gold-fields, or any portion thereof, and holding a commission duly empowering him to have charge thereof, and shall include "Warden and Assessors," except where it is otherwise specially provided.
The word "person" shall mean the holder of a Miner's Right, Business or other License or Lease.
The word "claim" shall mean the portion of land which each person shall be lawfully entitled to mine in or occupy, or any share or interest in any claim, or registered right held or granted under these Regulations, or under the provisions of the "Gold-fields Act, 1866."
The words "ordinary claim" shall mean all mining claims except river, quartz, wet, extended and prospecting, and tunnelling claims.
"River claims" shall mean all claims in the beds of rivers or permanent streams.
"Wet claims" shall mean claims in flooded ground, which cannot be worked without appliances for drainage, and defined as such by the Warden.
"Extended claims" shall mean claims surveyed and granted by certificate, as hereinafter provided.
"Prospecting claim" shall mean such portion of ground as may be granted and defined by the Warden, on gold being struck in new ground.
"Prospecting area" shall mean such portion of ground as may be allowed and protected for the purpose of prospecting, as hereinafter provided.
"Race" shall mean any artificial channel or ditch for the conveyance of water, and also the natural bed of any creek or gully through which water is diverted for mining purposes.
"Sluice-head" shall mean twenty superficial inches of water ganged as hereinafter directed.
Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender.
- THE MINER'S RIGHT AND BUSINESS LICENSE.
Every person residing on a Gold-field, and engaged in mining for gold, or holding any share in any mining interest except a gold-mining lease, shall be possessed of a Miner's Right; and every person residing on a Gold-field, and engaged in vending or disposing of any goods, merchandise, or chattels, whether by hawking or in any other manner, shall be possessed of a Business License: and every Miner's Right and Business License shall be produced for inspection when demanded by the Warden, or by any person duly authorized in that behalf, in writing, by the Warden.
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