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regulations. When a license to cut on any portion of a reserved area is granted, it shall be granted subject to the regulations in force at the date of the granting of such license.

38. The right of the licensee to the reserved areas shall be absolutely dependent upon his complying with the condition as to the continuous working of the sawmill with which they are connected, and with his complying with these regulations, and such right shall accordingly lapse whenever there has been a breach of conditions.

39. Every sawmill license shall be in the Form No. 2, Schedule B, appended to these regulations.

40. When cutting the timber on any area granted under Regulation 32, should the licensee desire to cut slightly outside the boundaries of such area, he shall at once make application to the Commissioner for permission to do so, and the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Commissioner, grant permission for an additional area, or areas, not exceeding 20 acres in all, to be added to the area stated in the license, and a plan of same shall be duly indorsed thereon. But if the area is more than 20 acres and up to 50 acres, all expenses of so doing, and of any survey that may be occasioned thereby, and any necessary marking on the ground, shall be borne and paid by the licensee, and the Minister may require him to deposit the cost thereof at such time as he thinks fit, either before or after permission is given. No cutting on such extra area shall take place until permission has been so given, and any breach of the conditions herein expressed shall entail forfeiture of the license.

Sawmill area in sparsely timbered country.

41. In the case of sparsely timbered country, or where the bush has been partly cut or destroyed, and where large initial expenditure by the licensee is required, the Minister may, in his discretion, authorise the issue of an original license for a sawmill area and reserve in connection therewith of such areas, for such term and on such special conditions as he may think fit, and such license and subsequent licenses to cut on the reserved area shall be granted subject to the regulations for the time being in force, in so far as they do not conflict with such special conditions.

Sawmill area to be rectangular wherever practicable.

42. As far as possible, sawmill areas shall be in a rectangular form, with the proportion of length to breadth of not less than three to one, or shall include one side of a watershed, except where previous surveys or other circumstances render this impracticable.

Survey fees, survey, and valuation.

43. As soon as practicable after payment of survey fees for a sawmill area the necessary survey and valuation shall be made, the survey to be made in accordance with such regulations as the Surveyor-General may prescribe. A plan of such survey shall be indorsed upon the license, and no licensee shall cut outside the limits of the area surveyed except under Regulation No. 40.

Payment for timber.

44. Upon the application being granted by the Minister the applicant shall, as may be agreed, pay the value of the timber included in the area to the Receiver of Land Revenue, or execute such agreement as may be prescribed, after which a license may be issued.