Nunavut Mining Regulations

Marginal note:Definition — recorded claim

• 14 (1) In this section, a recorded claim means any recorded claim other than a leased claim.

• Marginal note:Expansion of claims

  (2) If a unit contains, partly or totally, only one recorded claim and a land referred to in subsection 5(1) or a land of Nunavut to which these Regulations do not apply and that land is no longer referred to in subsection 5(1) or becomes subject to these Regulations, that land subsequently becomes part of that recorded claim.

• Marginal note:Expansion — more than one recorded claim

  (3) If a unit contains, partly or totally, more than one recorded claim and a land referred to in subsection 5(1) or a land of Nunavut to which these Regulations do not apply and that land is no longer referred to in subsection 5(1) or becomes subject to these Regulations, that land subsequently becomes part of one of those recorded claims, in accordance with the following order of priority:

  • (a) if at least one recorded claim is contiguous to that land,

    • (i) the claim that is contiguous to it and that was recorded under subsection 96(2) or, if two or more are contiguous to it, the claim that encompasses the claim that was staked first, or

    • (ii) the claim that is contiguous to it and that was recorded under subsection 13(1) or, if two or more are contiguous to it, the claim that was recorded first; and

  • (b) if there is no recorded claim that is contiguous to that land,

    • (i) the claim recorded under subsection 96(2) that encompasses the claim that was staked first, or

    • (ii) the claim that was recorded first under subsection 13(1).