Otago Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 193

Page 485

✨ Gold Fields Act Notices

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EXISTING RIGHTS PRESERVED.

Nothing herein contained shall be taken to affect any existing rights or privileges.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of (L.S.) Otago, at Dunedin, this twenty-seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

** The following Sections of The Gold Fields Act, 1858,* are appended for general information:—

"28. Any person not being the holder of a miner’s right or of a lease under this Act, who shall mine for gold upon any proclaimed gold field, and any person who shall employ any such unauthorised person so to mine, and any person not being the holder of a miner’s right, license, or lease, duly empowering him in that behalf, and not being an authorised person within the meaning of this Act, who shall occupy any waste lands in or become resident upon or at any proclaimed gold field, shall be liable to the penalties following, that is to say:—For the first offence a sum not exceeding five pounds; for the second or any subsequent offence a sum not exceeding ten pounds nor less than five pounds.

"29. Any person who shall knowingly mine or employ any person to mine for gold on any land belonging to a private individual, without the consent of the owner thereof, or his duly authorised agent, shall be subject to the like penalties as are mentioned in the last preceding clause.

"30. If any person shall forge or alter any “miner’s right,” license, lease, or other document issued under the authority of this Act, with intent to defeat the provisions thereof, or to defraud any person whomsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof before any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be subject to fine or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, not exceeding three years, or both, at the discretion of the Court.

"31. If any person shall use or exhibit any forged miner’s right, license, or lease, issued or purporting to be issued under the authority of this Act, knowing the same to be forged, or if any person shall fraudulently personate the holder of any such miner’s right, license, or lease, or shall falsely and fraudulently represent that any servant or other person, is an authorised person within the meaning of this Act, or shall fraudulently use or exhibit as his own any miner’s right, license, or lease, belonging to or granted to any other person, or shall use or exhibit as valid a miner’s right, license, or lease, which shall have expired, he shall be liable to a penalty for every such offence not exceeding fifty pounds.

"32. Every person committing any breach, whether of omission or commission, of any of the rules or regulations, made under the authority of this Act, shall for every such breach be liable to a fine or penalty not exceeding ten pounds for the first offence, and twenty pounds for any second or subsequent offence."

Printed for the Provincial Government, by D. CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, N. Z.

VUW Te Waharoa — Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 193

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🗺️ Existing Rights Preserved in Gold Fields Act

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated27 June 1862
KeywordsGold Fields Act, Mining Rights, Penalties, Forgery
👩‍💼 Officials

J. L. C. Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary

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