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of a miner's right or mining privilege of the rights
conferred upon him by clauses 105 and 106 hereof,
and subject also to the power of the Warden to grant
mining privileges in respect of the land to which
such license, certificate, warrant, or order relates:

Provided that the Warden, when granting such
mining privilege, may impose such reasonable conditions as, whilst not unduly hampering the holder
of such privilege in the exercise of his rights, will
afford reasonable facilities for the carrying-on of
the timber industry.

117. In every case where, under section 147 of
     the Mining Act, areas within the Counties of Buller,
     Inangahua, Grey, or Westland may hereafter be set
     aside by the Governor as areas within which timber
     licenses and other timber-cutting rights may be
     granted under section 227 of "the Land Act, 1892," exclusively, the following special provisions shall
     apply :—

(1.) Applications for timber licenses and other
timber-cutting rights within the aforesaid areas may be made to and dealt with
by the Warden as fully and effectually
as if those areas had been set aside as
areas within which timber licenses and
other timber-cutting rights might be
granted by the Warden exclusively :

Provided that in acting under this
regulation the Warden shall be deemed
to act on behalf of the Land Board, and
shall so state on every license or other
instrument issued by him hereunder.

(2.) All fees and royalties received in respect of
timber licenses and other timber-cutting
rights under this regulation shall be
deemed to be territorial revenue, and
shall accordingly be paid by the Receiver
into the Public Accounts as part of the
Consolidated Fund.

(3.) The Land Board shall not itself grant any
timber licenses or other timber-cutting
rights within the aforesaid areas.

General.

118. Subject to the foregoing provisions of clauses
     115, 116, and 117 of these regulations, the power
     hereinbefore conferred upon the Warden to grant
     licenses, certificates, warrants, or orders for timber-
     cutting may be exercised by him in respect of land
     comprised in any mining privilege.

FEES IN RESPECT OF MINING PRIVILEGES AND
TIMBER-CUTTING RIGHTS.

119. Subject to the specific provisions of the
     Mining Act and these regulations relating to specific
     fees, the fees specified in the Fifth Schedule hereto
     shall be payable in respect of the matters therein
     mentioned.

WARDEN'S COURT.
Office Hours.

120. (1.) The office of the Court shall be open to
     the public every day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and
     from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., except on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. On Saturdays the office shall
     be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and
     on Sundays and holidays the office shall be closed :

Provided that when the clerk has to attend more
offices than one he shall keep his office open on such
days and hours as the Warden from time to time
appoints.

(2.) A notice of the office hours shall be kept
posted in some conspicuous place in and outside
the office.

Holidays.

121. The following days shall be holidays in the
     Warden's Court and the offices thereof, that is to
     say: the days from Good Friday to Easter Tuesday
     (inclusive); the days from Christmas Eve to 3rd
     January (inclusive), and all statutory holidays ;
     and in each district the anniversary of the foundation of its province.

Minute-book, Plaint-book, Record-book, &c.

122. The clerk shall keep a book, to be known as
     the minute-book, in which shall be entered minutes
     of all interlocutory proceedings and of all temporary
     appointments, whether of officers pursuant to
     the Mining Act, or of office days or hours pursuant
     to these regulations. He shall also keep a plaint-
     book in the form numbered 71 in the Sixth Schedule
     hereto, and a record-book in the form numbered 72,
     in the Sixth Schedule hereto, wherein he shall enter
     the particulars therein specified.

123. The forms numbered 73 to 92 in the Sixth
     Schedule hereto may be used in respect of proceedings in the Warden's Court, or of documents to be
     filed or lodged therein; and if for any such proceedings there is no form prescribed, the Warden may
     prescribe the form to be used.

Fees.

124. The fees specified in the Seventh Schedule
     hereto shall be payable in respect of the matters
     therein mentioned, and the allowance to witnesses
     in proceedings in the Warden's Court shall be those
     specified in the same Schedule.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY.
Aid to prospecting Deep Levels.

125. With respect to the assistance which may
     be given by the Minister or local authority towards
     prospecting deep levels, the following provisions
     shall apply:—

(1.) A “deep level” to prospect quartz lodes
shall mean prospecting operations undertaken to prospect auriferous lodes
down to a depth of not less than
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