The Deep Sea Mining (Exploration Licences) (Applications) Regulations 1982

Made: 22nd January 1982

Laid before Parliament: 25th January 1982

Coming into Operation: 25th January 1982

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 2 and 12 of the Deep Sea Mining (Temporary Provisions) Act 1981, and with the consent of the Treasury given in relation to Regulation 3, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Deep Sea Mining (Exploration Licences) (Applications) Regulations 1982 and shall come into operation on 25th January 1982.

Applications for licences

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• (1) An application for an exploration licence shall be made in writing to the Secretary of State in the form specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto, giving such particulars and accompanied by such documents as are referred to in that part of the Schedule.

• (2) An application shall also be accompanied by such information as is referred to in Part II of the Schedule.

• (3) If there is any material change in any of the particulars, documents or information comprised in an application before the Secretary of State has informed the applicant of his decision to grant or refuse the licence applied for, the applicant shall forthwith give written particulars of the change to the Secretary of State.

Fee

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The fee payable for the grant of an exploration licence shall be £10,000.

SCHEDULE — APPLICATION FOR AN EXPLORATION LICENCE

PART I

Form of application

Form of application

PART II — Additional Information

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Information with respect to the applicant's financial and technological capability and resources for carrying out the items specified in paragraph 8 of Part I of this Schedule.

2

Information justifying the size of the area in respect of which the licence is applied for in terms of the tonnage of hard mineral resources estimated to be required for the applicant's anticipated production, the estimated tonnage of such resources as are minable which the applicant estimates to be recoverable, together with all factors which explain the basis for such estimates.

Signed

John MacGregor — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — Department of Industry

The Treasury hereby consents, so far as prescribing the fee.

J.A. Cope — P.L. Brooke — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations provide for the form and content of applications for exploration licences which the Secretary of State may grant under the Deep Sea Mining (Temporary Provisions) Act 1981. They also prescribe the fee payable on grant of the licence.