4Grant of leases to the Company

4 Grant of leases to the Company

4 Grant of leases to the Company

(1) For the purposes of an agreement entered into under subsection one of section three of this Act, the Mining Act 1906, and any amendments thereof in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be amended to the extent necessary:

(a) to authorise the granting of a lease or leases thereunder in conformity with that agreement, and

(b) to give full force and effect to every provision, stipulation, covenant, term and condition of any lease so granted.

(2) Any proclamation, notification or order made before or after the commencement of this Act that, but for this subsection, would preclude the granting of a lease referred to in subsection one of this section shall, to the extent necessary to authorise the granting of the lease, be deemed to have been revoked, cancelled, varied or amended, as the case may require, immediately before the granting of the lease.

(3) Nothing in section thirty-two of the Mining Act shall be construed as authorising an objection to the issue of a lease pursuant to an agreement entered into under subsection one of section three of this Act and section 12A of the State Coal Mines Act 1912, as subsequently amended, shall not extend to the land comprised in any lease so issued.