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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>MINING 
                                              RIGHTS REGULATION (AMENDMENT) 
                                              ORDINANCE, 1957 </b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>(NO. 31 OF 
                                              1957)</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">GOLD COAST</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">NO. 31 OF 1957.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Section</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">1. Short Title.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">2. Amendment of 
                                              Section 2 of Principal Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">3. Amendment of 
                                              Section 3 of Principal Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">4. Amendment of 
                                              Section 5 of Principal Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">5. Amendment of 
                                              Heading to Part 3 of Principal 
                                              Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">6. Amendment of 
                                              Section 6 of Principal Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">7. Amendment of 
                                              Section 7 of Principal Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">8. Amendment of 
                                              Section 8 of Principal Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">9. Amendment of 
                                              Section 11(1) of Principal 
                                              Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">AN ORDINANCE to 
                                              amend the Mining Rights Regulation 
                                              Ordinance (Chapter 153).</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Date of 
                                              Commencement: [4th March, 1957.]</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">BE IT ENACTED 
                                              by the Legislature of the Gold 
                                              Coast, as follows:&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              1&#8212;Short Title</b>.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">This Ordinance 
                                              may be cited as the Mining Rights 
                                              Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance, 
                                              1957, and shall be read as one 
                                              with the Mining Rights Regulation 
                                              Ordinance, hereinafter referred to 
                                              as the principal Ordinance.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              2&#8212;Amendment of Section 2 of 
                                              Principal Ordinance.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Section 2 of 
                                              the principal Ordinance is hereby 
                                              amended &#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(i) by deleting 
                                              the definition of &quot;Concession 
                                              land&quot;;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(ii) by 
                                              inserting after the definition of 
                                              &quot;Gold Coast&quot; the following new 
                                              definition:&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;'lessee' means 
                                              any person to whom a right to 
                                              conduct mining operations is 
                                              granted under a mining lease;&quot;;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(iii) by 
                                              deleting the definition of 
                                              &quot;Mining&quot; and substituting the 
                                              following definition:&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;'mining' 
                                              includes dredging, boring for 
                                              mineral oil and any other 
                                              operations for winning or 
                                              obtaining minerals or precious 
                                              stones;&quot;;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(iv) by 
                                              inserting after the definition of 
                                              &quot;Mining concession&quot; the following 
                                              new definitions:&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&quot; 'mining land' 
                                              means land subject to a mining 
                                              concession or mining lease;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">'mining lease' 
                                              means any writing whereby any 
                                              right is granted to conduct mining 
                                              operations in land under 
                                              territorial waters;&quot;; and</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(v) by 
                                              inserting in the definition of 
                                              &quot;Mining rights&quot; immediately after 
                                              the word &quot;concession&quot; the words 
                                              &quot;or mining lease&quot;.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              3&#8212;Amendment of Section 3 of 
                                              Principal Ordinance.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Section 3 of 
                                              the principal Ordinance is hereby 
                                              amended by substituting for the 
                                              word &quot;concession&quot; occurring in 
                                              subsection (2) the word &quot;mining&quot;.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              4&#8212;Amendment of Section 5 of 
                                              Principal Ordinance.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Section 5 of 
                                              the principal Ordinance is hereby 
                                              amended&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(i) by 
                                              substituting for the word 
                                              &quot;concession&quot; occurring in 
                                              paragraph (1) and where it first 
                                              occurs in paragraph (4) the word 
                                              &quot;mining&quot;;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(ii) by 
                                              inserting after the word 
                                              &quot;concessions&quot; occurring in 
                                              paragraph (3) the comma and words 
                                              &quot;mining leases&quot;; and</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(iii) by 
                                              inserting after the word &quot;holder&quot; 
                                              occurring in paragraph (4) the 
                                              words and commas &quot;or lease, as the 
                                              case may be,&quot;.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              5&#8212;Amendment of Heading to Part 3 
                                              of Principal Ordinance.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">The heading to 
                                              Part 3 of the principal Ordinance 
                                              is hereby amended by adding the 
                                              words &quot;AND LESSEES&quot; after the word 
                                              &quot;HOLDERS&quot;.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              6&#8212;Amendment of Section 6 of 
                                              Principal Ordinance.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Section 6 of 
                                              the principal Ordinance is hereby 
                                              amended by inserting after the 
                                              word &quot;holder&quot; where it first 
                                              occurs therein the words &quot;and 
                                              lessee&quot; and where it next occurs 
                                              the words &quot;or lessee&quot;.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              7&#8212;Amendment of Section 7 of 
                                              Principal Ordinance.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Section 7 of 
                                              the principal Ordinance is hereby 
                                              amended by substituting for the 
                                              expression &quot;concession land&quot; 
                                              occurring therein and in the 
                                              marginal note the expression 
                                              &quot;mining land&quot;.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              8&#8212;Amendment of Section 8 of 
                                              Principal Ordinance.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Section 8 of 
                                              the principal Ordinance is hereby 
                                              amended by inserting after the 
                                              word &quot;holder&quot; the words &quot;and 
                                              lessee&quot; and substituting for the 
                                              expression &quot;concession land&quot; the 
                                              expression &quot;mining land&quot;.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial"><b>Section 
                                              9&#8212;Amendment of Section 11(1) of 
                                              Principal Ordinance.</b></font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Subsection (1) 
                                              of section 11 of the principal 
                                              Ordinance is hereby amended&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(i) by 
                                              inserting in paragraph (d) after 
                                              the word &quot;holders&quot; the words &quot;and 
                                              lessees&quot;; and</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">(ii) by 
                                              inserting immediately after 
                                              paragraph (d) the following new 
                                              paragraph (dd):&#8212;</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">&quot;(dd) For 
                                              prescribing accounts and records 
                                              to be kept by concession holders 
                                              and lessees;&quot;.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">This printed 
                                              impression has been carefully 
                                              compared by me with the Bill which 
                                              has passed the Legislative 
                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a 
                                              true and correctly printed copy of 
                                              the said Bill.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">Clerk to the 
                                              Legislative Assembly.</font></p>
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                                              <font face="Arial">K. B. AYENSU</font></p>
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