Statistics Act, 1999
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Mining Titles Registration Act, 1967 (Act No. 16 of 1967)RegulationsMining Titles and Registration Regulations, 2004Chapter I : Short Title and Commencement |
| 1. | These Regulations shall be called the Mining Titles Registration Regulations, 2004, and shall come into operation on the date of commencement of the Mining Titles Registration Amendment Act 24 of 2003. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise indicates, "the Act" means the Mining Titles Registration Act, (Act No 16 of 1967), or any amendment thereof, and any expression to which a meaning has been assigned in that Act, when used in these regulations, bears the meaning so assigned. |
| 2. | STATUTORY AUTHORISATION |
Section 10 of the Act authorises these Regulations which regulations substitute those promulgated on 18 April 1969 and any other subsequent amendments.
| 3. | INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION |
These Regulations shall be read in conjunction with the Act, but in the event of inconsistency between the provisions of the Act and the Regulations, the provisions of the Act shall prevail.
Co-ordinated point shall mean a point that does not correspond to existing surface right cadastral boundaries as recorded on a diagram and has not necessarily been positioned within the relevant limit of allowable error as defined by the Land Survey Act, 1997 (Act No. 8 of 1997), unless the relevant permission, permit, reservation or right adjoins an existing mining right, in which case the co-ordinated point shall be surveyed within relevant standard of accuracy as defined in the Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No. 29 of 1996).
Surveyor shall mean a person registered as a professional land surveyor or mine surveyor in terms of the Professional and Technical Surveyors Act, 1984 (Act No. 40 of 1984) or a person so recognized as a surveyor.
