• 17. (1) Failure on the part of a locator or a person who locates a claim on behalf of a locator to comply with the requirements of sections 13 to 16 shall not invalidate a claim if that person has

  • (a) in good faith tried to comply with the requirements of those sections and his failure to do so is not of a character calculated or likely to mislead other persons locating claims; and

  • (b) stated in his application to record the claim, where he was aware of the requirements of those sections, in what respects he was unable to comply with the requirements and the reasons therefor.

• (2) A Mining Recorder may, before recording a claim, order the locator thereof to comply with any of the requirements of sections 13 to 16 that have not been complied with and where the locator fails to comply with such order within the time specified therein, the Mining Recorder shall not record the claim.

18. A claim may be located on any day including a holiday.

• 19. (1) On payment of the applicable fee set out in Schedule I, a Mining Recorder shall issue to a licensee applying therefor identification tags for use in marking claims in any mining district.

• (2) On payment of the applicable fee set out in Schedule I, a Mining Recorder shall issue to a licensee applying therefor reduced area tags for use in marking the corners of a reduced area, in accordance with subsection 43(2).

• (3) Where a licensee loses identification tags or reduced area tags issued to him pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) and files a declaration with a Mining Recorder as to the loss and the circumstances thereof, the Mining Recorder shall issue to the licensee, free of charge, tags equal in number to the number of tags lost.

• (4) The Mining Recorder shall cancel in his records the serial numbers of the tags that have been lost and the lost tags shall not thereafter be used.

20. Subject to subsection 17(2) and section 21, no person shall move or destroy any legal post and no person shall remove, deface or alter any identification tag or other inscription placed on or in a legal post.

• 21. (1) Where, in the course of conducting any public work or carrying on any mining operation, it is necessary to move a legal post, a surveyor may, with the permission of a Mining Recorder, move the post to such place as the Mining Recorder may determine.

• (2) Every surveyor who moves a legal post pursuant to subsection (1), shall inscribe

  • (a) in the case of a wooden legal post, on the post, or

  • (b) in the case of a mound of earth or stone, on paper or other durable material inserted in a waterproof container in the apex of the mound,

  the distance in feet and the direction from the new location to the old location of the post.

• (3) Where a legal post is moved pursuant to subsection (1), the Mining Recorder shall notify the claim holder of the location to which the post has been moved.