Applications

(1) An application under this part20 (a) shall be made to the Minister, or, if so prescribed, to the Inspector; (b) shall be in or to the effect of a form approved by the Minister; (c) shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee; and (d) may be withdrawn by the applicant giving to the Minister or, in the case of an application made to the Inspector, to the Inspector, a notice of withdrawal. (2) Any application under this Part required to be made to the Minister shall be made to him through the Inspector. (3) The Minister shall, by notice served on an applicant for the grant or renewal of a mineral right, or for the enlargement of a prospecting area or a mining area under section 66, direct the applicant to publish details of his application for mineral rights, in at least three issues of a newspaper circulating in Belize, at intervals of not less than one week between such issues, and in at least three issues of the Gazette.