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(1) Subject to section 82, where a person is given the right to occupy
land as a permittee or licensee, he shall have, for himself, his
employees, agents and contractors, a right to construct a road or
carry out other work to ensure access to the exploration permit or
licence area by the shortest practicable route to a road, within the
meaning of the Control of Roads Act 1953, a railway line, the sea or
a waterway.
(2) For the purpose of constructing a road or carrying out work to
ensure access to an exploration permit or licence area, the
permittee or licensee as the case may be may enter land with such
machinery, equipment and workmen as is or are necessary to mark
out and construct the road or carry out the work.