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MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 127

MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 127

127 .         Establishment of wardens’ courts

        (1)         The Governor may, by Order in Council —

            (a)         establish wardens’ courts at such places in the State as he thinks necessary;

            (b)         assign to any warden’s court such mineral field or district thereof, as he thinks fit;

            (c)         alter the place at which a warden’s court is established;

            (d)         discontinue the holding of a warden’s court at any place;

            (e)         cancel the assignment of a mineral field or district thereof to a warden’s court and assign it to another warden’s court.

        (2)         When the holding of a warden’s court is discontinued, or any mineral field or district thereof is no longer assigned to that court, all proceedings pending in that court and all the records thereof, or such of the proceedings and such of the records as relate to the mineral field or district thereof, as the case requires, shall be transferred to and be continued in such other warden’s court as the Governor by Order in Council directs.

        [Section 127 amended: No. 100 of 1985 s. 97; No. 59 of 2004 s. 116.]