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MINERAL DEVELOPMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 7

Exception of minerals held in connection with mines in work or being developed, and of mines of such minerals.

7.(1) Subject to section 9(1), where at the commencement for section 1 a
person is lawfully working or developing a mine of the working of minerals of
any description or descriptions in any land, subsection (1) of section 1 shall
not apply to any minerals of that description or those descriptions, or to any
mines of such minerals,

(a)in that land, or

(b)in reserve areas.

(2) In subsection (1) "reserve areas" in relation to minerals of any
description or descriptions means any lands (whether or not contiguous to the
land mentioned in that subsection or to each other) in which the person so
mentioned is entitled to work minerals of that description or those
descriptions.

Registration of mineral rights where mines are in work or being developed.

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