Mining On Private Property Act 1898 (WA)

Western Australia Mining on Private Property Act 1898 Western Australia Mining on Private Property Act 1898 Contents 56. The Hampton Lands and Railway Syndicate, Limited 1 57. Regulations may be made 2 58. Regulations on publication to have the force of the law 2 59. Fines may be imposed 2 60. Proceedings on breach of regulations 2 61. Royalty released 3 62. Provisions of preceding divisions of this Act not to apply 3 Schedule — Hampton Lands and Railway Syndicate, Limited lands Notes Compilation table 5 Western Australia Mining on Private Property Act 1898 An Act to permit mining on private property. [1‑55 Deleted: No. 15 of 1904 s. 4.] [Heading deleted: No. 19 of 2010 s. 44(3).]

56. The Hampton Lands and Railway Syndicate, Limited It is declared as follows: — (a) By an agreement, in writing, dated 18 June 1890, made between Sir Frederick Napier Broome, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor of the Colony of Western Australia, acting therein for and on behalf of the Government of the said Colony of the one part and the Hampton Lands and Railway Syndicate, Limited, of the other part, it was agreed that the Government should sell and the Syndicate should purchase 216,000 acres of Crown Lands on the terms and conditions in the said agreement mentioned: (b) The said purchase was duly completed by the said Syndicate: (c) It was one of the terms of the said agreement that the Government should grant to the Syndicate on its application a permit to work all the metals reserved by the Crown Grants of the said lands in accordance with the regulations authorising such permit: (d) The lands which were granted to the said Syndicate, under the said agreement, are those set forth in the Schedule hereto, and the same are now held in fee simple by the said Syndicate or its assigns: (e) By the regulations authorising the permit aforesaid a royalty of two shillings 2 per ounce is payable on all gold won from the said lands: (f) With the object of facilitating the settlement and development of the said lands it is expedient to release the said royalty, and to enact the following provisions.