Mining Act 1978

Subject to this Act, the holder of a mining tenement may surrender the tenement in whole or in part by lodging a surrender for registration.

Where a mining tenement is being surrendered as to part only, the form of surrender shall be prepared by reference to a written description of the area of the part to be surrendered, and be accompanied by a map on which are clearly delineated the respective boundaries of that mining tenement and of the part of that mining tenement which is being surrendered.

Where part of a mining tenement is surrendered, notification thereof shall be endorsed as prescribed on the mining tenement, for which purpose the holder shall produce his copy of the document on demand, and thereafter the rent payable in respect thereof shall be reduced as provided for in the regulations.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act other than section 26A(3) and (4), where a mining tenement is surrendered, whether under this section or under section 26A or 65, in whole or in part, every right, title and interest held under the mining tenement in respect of —

the whole of the land the subject of that tenement; or

that part of that land which is being surrendered,

a conditional surrender, on the date on which the surrender becomes absolute;

a surrender other than a conditional surrender or a surrender under section 26A(2) or 65, on the date the surrender is registered;

a surrender under section 26A(2), on the expiry of the period referred to in section 26A(1);

a surrender under section 65, on the date on which the surrender becomes effective under that section.