Section 9Part 1 — Introductory and General
Power to close areas to prospecting, etc.
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9. The Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, declare any area, other than an area over which rights under a licence or mining lease have been previously granted and are subsisting, to be closed to prospecting and mining either generally or by such persons, for such periods or for such minerals, as may be specified in such notice, and may re- open such area or any part thereof by further notice on any terms and conditions as to prospecting or mining and to such persons as he may think fit.