3. These Regulations apply in respect of territorial lands in the Northwest Territories and in Nunavut referred to in subsections 3(1) and (2) of the Act.

• 4. (1) The Chief shall designate a person to be Supervising Mining Recorder and may designate persons to be engineers of mines or claim inspectors.

• (2) For each mining district, the Chief shall designate a person to be Mining Recorder and may designate a person to be Deputy Mining Recorder.

• 5. (1) Subject to subsection (2), all records of recorded claims and all documents filed in the office of a Mining Recorder relating to such claims shall, during office hours, be open to public inspection free of charge, and the Mining Recorder shall, on payment of the applicable fee set out in Schedule I, issue copies of such records and documents to any person applying therefor.

• (2) Subject to subsection (3),

  • (a) no report on geological, geochemical, geophysical, diamond drilling or other investigation of a recorded mineral claim, and

  • (b) no other report or document certified by the holder of a recorded mineral claim to be confidential,

  that is filed with a Mining Recorder as evidence of representation work on a mineral claim shall be open to public inspection for a period of three years from the date on which such report or document was filed or until the mineral claim to which it relates lapses, whichever is the earlier.

• (2.1) No copy of a report or document referred to in subsection (2) shall, for the earlier period referred to in that subsection, be issued to anyone except the holder of the mineral claim to which the report or document relates, except for the purposes of the administration or enforcement of these Regulations or legal proceedings related to such administration or enforcement.

• (3) Every copy of, or extract from, an entry in any record kept by a Mining Recorder or any document filed in his office relating to a recorded claim certified by a Mining Recorder or Deputy Mining Recorder to be a true copy or extract thereof, shall be received in evidence in all proceedings relating to that claim without proof of the signature or of the official character of the person appearing to have signed the certificate and without proof of his official position.

6. Where a claim has been recorded under a claim name, a Mining Recorder may, on receipt of an application therefor in writing from the holder of the claim and upon payment of the applicable fee set out in Schedule I, change the name of the claim in his records.

7. Any individual who is 18 years of age or older and any company that is registered with the Registrar of companies pursuant to the Companies Ordinance of the Territories, other than an individual or company who held a licence that was revoked pursuant to subsection 10(3) within the previous 30 days, may apply for a licence.