Government officers prohibited from acquiring rights.
32. No officer, whether civil or military, shall, while in the service of the Government of the Protectorate, acquire or hold any right or interest under any prospecting right, licence to prospect, or mining lease, and any licence or lease purporting to confer any such right or interest on any such officer shall be null and void.
Right of entry to inspect.
33. The Government Inspector of Mines may at any time enter and inspect any land over which an exclusive licence to prospect or a mining lease has been granted, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition thereof, and may inspect and take copies of or extracts from any books or papers, plans, &c., dealing with the operations of the licensee or lessee, and required by this Proclamation to be kept.
Power to make rules and regulations.
34. The Governor shall have power to make rules and regulations for carrying this proclamation into effect and in particular for all or any of the following matters:—
(a) The manner in which applications for prospecting rights, exclusive licences to prospect, and mining leases shall be made, the forms to be used, and the fees payable in respect thereof;
(b) The information to be supplied by the applicants;
(c) The shape of areas over which exclusive licences to prospect may be granted and the manner in which the same shall be surveyed and beaconed;
(d) The manner in which the right of entry upon land shall be exercised; and the conditions on which shafts, pits, temporary buildings, and other works may be made or erected for the purpose of prospecting;