Ontario regulation 196/06

made under the

Mining act

Made: May 3, 2006
Filed: May 10, 2006
Published on e-Laws: May 11, 2006
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: May 27, 2006

Amending O. Reg. 7/96

(Claim Staking)

1. Section 5 of Ontario Regulation 7/96 is amended by adding the following subsection:

(17) If it appears that a township originally intended to be surveyed into sections of 260 hectares or into lots of 130, 80, 60 or 40 hectares, as mentioned in subsections (12) to (16), respectively, contains sections or lots that are not of the intended size, a person staking a mining claim in such a section or lot must stake the number of aliquot parts of a lot required for the particular size of lot into which the township was intended to be surveyed.

2. Subsection 8 (1) of the Regulation is revoked.

3. Subsection 9 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

(1) A mining claim must be staked under the direction of a recording licensee.

(1.1) In order to direct the staking of a mining claim under subsection (1), the recording licensee must be present in each area under staking for a mining claim at the time the area is being staked for the purpose of recording the mining claim.

4. Section 21 of the Regulation is revoked.

5. (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.

(2) Section 3 comes into force 90 days after this Regulation is filed.