Rehabilitation of area damaged by prospecting or mining

(1) There may be included in a prospecting or mining licence such conditions relating to– (a) the reinstatement, levelling, regrassing, reforesting and contouring of any part of the prospecting or mining area that may have been damaged by prospecting or mining operations; and (b) the filling in, sealing or fencing off, of excavations, shafts and tunnels, as may be prescribed, or as the Minister may, in any particular case, determine. (2) There may be included as a condition on which a claim is registered any condition, of a kind referred to in sub-section (1), which may be prescribed for the purposes of that sub- section. (3) Where any condition is to be included in a prospecting or mining licence pursuant to sub-section (1), the Minister may require the applicant for the licence to lodge with the Inspector, 86 within such time as the Minister may require, security for the performance of the condition in such amount and form as the Minister deems appropriate.