Section 16: Prospecting.

(1) Subject to the provisions of section 17 of this Act, and of subsection (2) of this section, the Corporation may, when engaged in prospecting under a licence issued under section 15 of this Act, enter by its servants or agents with all necessary assistance upon any land within the territory to which the licence relates, and may-
(a) sink shafts or wells and dig or bore adits, holes or trenches;
(b) take and have samples of all minerals;
(c) erect and maintain such machinery and plant and construct such ways as may be necessary for or in connection with such prospecting;
(d)
construct camps and take timber (other than protected trees) and water from any lake or water course (not the subject of a water licence granted under the provisions of the Minerals Act) for domestic purposes or for the purposes of prospecting.
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(2)
Before beginning prospecting operations on any land, the Corporation shall give notice of their intention so to do to the Chief Inspector of Mines and to the Secretary of the Local Government of the Local Government Area in which the land is situate and to the owner and the occupier of the land where practicable.