Section 27

Any person found to be prospecting or carrying on mining operations upon any land, or doing any act with the view to prospecting or carrying on mining operations upon the same, without having received lawful authority to prospect the same or to carry on such mining operations thereon under any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or in breach of any of the conditions of such authority, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and one hundred dollars for every day during which the offence continues and all machinery, tools, plant, buildings or other property, together with any ore or other product which may be found upon, or proved to have been obtained from, the said land shall be liable to forfeiture.

Any person in breach of or contravening any provision of this Ordinance for which no specific penalty is provided shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

FOR REFERENCE ONLY AS AT JANUARY 2019 15

Power to make regulations.