New South Wales Consolidated ActsNotwithstanding the Act thirty-seventh Victoria number thirteen, or any
provision repealed thereby, or any covenants, conditions, or provisions in any
lease for mining purposes, or any promise of such lease granted or made in
respect of any part of the Newcastle Pasturage Reserve, the Governor may, by
notice published in the Gazette, withdraw from time to time from such lease or
promise of lease, without compensation or abatement of rent, so much of the
surface of the land demised thereby as is necessary or desirable for the
purpose of giving effect to this Act; and at the expiration of three months
after the date of such notice the surface of the land therein described shall
cease to be included in the land so demised:
Provided that during the currency of such lease or promise of lease, and after
withdrawal or sale, the holder thereof shall, except as to the surface of the
land, continue to have the same rights and privileges in connection with the
land so withdrawn or sold, and the minerals it contains, as he had before such
withdrawal or sale.