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Section 29

Area of prospecting licence

of Minerals Ordinance, 2004

State OrdinanceIn forceProvision 29 of 166
Section 29

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(1)

The area of a prospecting licence granted under this

Ordinance shall not exceed two hundred square kilometres for a general prospecting licence, and not exceeding twenty square kilometres for an exclusive prospecting licence.

(2)

Extension of a general prospecting licence shall apply to an area equivalent to fifty per cent of the original licensed area in the first instance and thereafter for an area equivalent to ten per cent of the original licensed area.