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MINERAL DEVELOPMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 8

8.(1) Every owner of an estate in possession in mines and minerals which have,
by virtue of section 7, been excepted from the application of section 1(1)
shall, before the first appointed day, make application to the Ministry, in
such form accompanied by such particulars as may be approved by the Ministry,
for the registration of his estate under this section.

(2) Where the mines and minerals are the subject of a settlement and the
trustees, if any, of the settlement have, or any other person entitled under
the settlement has, reason to believe that a person entitled to make
application under subsection (1) cannot, or it is not likely to, make the
application before the first appointed day, the trustees or that other person
may make the application on his behalf, and if no application is received from
him before that day any application so made shall be deemed to be made by him.

(3) The Ministry shall keep a register of estates in mines and minerals to
which subsection (1) applies in such form and at such place, and shall enter
in it such particulars of all estates for the registration of which
application is duly made under this section and is not, or is not treated as,
withdrawn, as the Ministry thinks fit.

(4) The register kept under subsection (3) shall be open for inspection by any
person at all reasonable hours.

(5) A person who makes application under subsection (1), or on behalf of any
other person under subsection (2), for the registration of an estate in mines
and minerals shall, on being so required by notice served on him by
the Ministry, furnish to the Ministry such further and better particulars as
are within his knowledge or can reasonably be procured by him as the Ministry
may require to enable it to know

(a)whether the mines and minerals are mines and minerals to which section 7
applies; or

(b)whether the applicant or the person on whose behalf the application is made
is entitled to be registered as the owner of that estate; or

(c)the nature of the estate, or the extent of the land or the description of
any mines and minerals which is or are subject to it;

(6) In this section and sections 9 and 10 "estate" means

a legal or equitable life estate;

a legal or equitable fee tail;

a legal or equitable fee simple absolute;

a tenancy; or

an equity of redemption in relation to a mortgage of any of theabove estates;

Consequences of non-registration under section 8.

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