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• (7) Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, where a licensee through circumstances beyond the licensee’s control is prevented from, or delayed in, spending money on exploration as required by subsection (3), the Chief, or a person designated by the Chief, shall extend the period within which the money may be spent and the term of the licence, and make such further extensions as are necessary, to enable the licensee to spend the money on exploration for coal on the land for which the licence was issued.

• (8) Where a person has been issued a licence pursuant to section 35 (in this subsection referred to as the new licence) following the expiration of a licence issued to that person pursuant to that section (in this subsection referred to as the former licence) for the same area of land described in the new licence,

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• 22 (1) Where a lessee holds a lease of a location acquired by assignment or otherwise under the provisions of these Regulations, on land situated more than 10 miles from a railway when the lease was issued, and where the lessee can show that he has expended in actual prospecting and developing operations on such location by recognized methods during any year, prior to railway communication with any such location having been established, an amount equal to or in excess of the prescribed yearly rental of such location, the Minister, upon proof satisfactory to him that such expenditure was incurred for the purpose and in the manner specified, may waive payment of the rental for the year of the term during which such expenditure may be shown to have been incurred, or in case the rental has already been paid, he may apply such payment or such portion thereof as to him seems reasonable on account of future payments of the rental of any such location, such expenditure, however, shall not be accepted as rental for a total of more than five years during the term of any lease.

• (2) Where a lessee holds leases on two or more adjoining locations, any amount expended on actual prospecting and developing operations on one or more of such locations, not otherwise applied in respect of rental, may, with the approval of the Minister, be applied against rental due on any other such location, to the same extent as if such operations had been performed on such other location.

25 Subject to these Regulations, a permittee is entitled

• (a) to enter upon the surface of the location covered by his permit, or such portion thereof and to such extent as the Minister may consider necessary for efficient coal mining and for no other purpose; and

• (b) to mine the quantity of coal set out in his permit subject to payment of a royalty on the merchantable output of the mine of $0.25 per ton of 2,000 pounds or such other royalty as may be fixed from time to time by the Minister with the approval of the Governor in Council.

11 In the case of any dispute as to the time of staking a location, entitlement shall be recognized according to the priority of the placing of the post or tube, at the northeast corner, subject to any questions as to the validity of the record itself, and subject to the applicant having complied with all the terms and conditions of these Regulations.