Northern Mineral Exploration Assistance Regulations (C.R.C., c. 332)

11 No amount is payable to a recipient as or on account of a grant unless the recipient has

• (a) undertaken to make payment in accordance with these Regulations to Her Majesty in right of Canada of any amounts that become owing by the recipient by reason of any provision of these Regulations;

• (b) authorized the Minister to make public, at any time after two years from the day fixed by him for completion of the program of exploratory work, any information disclosed to the Director pursuant to section 7;

• (c) undertaken not to assign, transfer, give away, abandon, mortgage, pledge or otherwise charge or grant any interest in or in any way disentitle or disable himself from acquiring holdings described in his application

  • (i) except with the prior written consent of the Minister and subject to any conditions that the Minister may in giving his consent impose, or

  • (ii) except after the written notice contemplated by section 15 has been given to the recipient by the Minister;

• (d) undertaken, on behalf of the recipient and the recipient’s agents, officers, employees and servants, not to represent or imply by any means that the approval of the recipient’s application by the Minister or the payment to the recipient of any amount as or on account of a grant connotes a favourable opinion of Her Majesty or of any officer or employee of Her Majesty as to the presence of oil, gas or minerals in any of the areas to which the holdings described in the recipient’s application relate;

• (e) undertaken to repay to Her Majesty in right of Canada any amount paid to the recipient as or on account of a grant together with simple interest thereon at the rate of 10 per cent per annum from the day on which such amount was paid to the recipient, if

  • (i) the recipient or any agent, officer, employee or servant of the recipient commits a breach of any undertaking given by the recipient pursuant to these Regulations, or

  • (ii) the recipient or any agent, officer, employee or servant of the recipient either before or after this undertaking is given, knowingly makes a false or misleading statement or fails to disclose a material particular in an application or other document or wilfully furnishes any false or misleading information; and

• (f) given to the Minister an undertaking satisfactory to him that the recipient will employ in connection with his exploratory work persons residing in the area in which the work is to be carried out to the fullest extent possible having regard to the availability and qualifications of those persons.