Regulations

(1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing all matters that by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the provisions of this Act. (2) In particular, but without limiting the generality of sub- section (1), the regulations may include provision for or with (a) reconnaissance operations, prospecting for minerals and the carrying on of related operations, and for those purposes the execution of works, the methods which may or may not be used and the duties of specified 105 persons in relation to reconnaissance or (b) mining for minerals and the carrying on of related operations, and for those purposes the execution of works, the methods which may or may not be used and the duties of specified persons in relation to mining operations; (c) the functions of officers acting in the administration of this Act; (d) the regulation of matters relating to sanitation and health; (e) the reporting of cases of accident or death occurring in the course of reconnaissance, prospecting or mining operations, or in any related operations, and the holding of inquiries into accidents; (f) the demarcation of prospecting or mining areas; (g) the determination and amount of royalty payable, and the manner of the payment and collection of royalty; (h) the circumstances in which fees or rents may be charged and the amount thereof; (i) the making of searches in connection with claims or mineral rights, or interests created therein, the granting of certificates in connection therewith, and the effect of any such certificate; 106 (j) the issue and conditions of a non-exclusive prospecting licence and the exercise of rights thereunder; (k) the manner of pegging of claims (including the number and class of claims which may be pegged), and the registration of claims; (l) the exercise of rights and the duties to be performed (including work obligations); (m) the transfer and the creation of shares in a claim, and the respective rights of the transferor and the transferee; (n) the amalgamation, surrender or cancellation of claims, whether in respect of the whole or part only of the land in claims areas; (o) submission of records and reports as specified in Schedule I by the holders of reconnaissance licences, exclusive prospecting licences and mining licences; or (p) amending Schedule I. (3) Regulations made pursuant to sub-section (2) (g)– (a) may prohibit the export of any mineral unless or until royalty payable thereon has been paid or secured; (b) may specify the person or persons by whom royalty shall be paid, and may specify whether two or more persons are jointly and severally liable to pay the royalty; 107 (c) may provide for the examination of mineral consignments and the issue of export permits in respect thereof; and (d) may provide for the performance by persons identified in the regulations of the functions with respect to royalty and its collection. (4) The power under this section to make regulations may be exercised– (a) either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all of those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or class of cases; and (b) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised– (i) the same provision for all those cases, a different provision for different cases or classes of cases, or different provisions as respects the same case or class of case for different purposes of this Act; or (ii) any such either unconditionally or subject to any specified condition.