Section 97: Saving as to winning of certain minerals.

(1) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing any citizen of Nigeria from wining, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the Minister, salt, soda, potash or galena from any land (other than land within the area of mining lease or land)designated by the Minister as security land pursuant to section 1(2)of this Act from which it has been the custom of the members of the community to which he belongs to win before the coming into force of this Act.
(2) The Minister may by order published in the Gazette direct the provisions of subsection (1) of this section to apply, within such local limits as may be prescribed by the order, to any mineral which the Minister is satisfied has before the commencement of this Act been customarily won by any community.
(3) Where before the commencement of this Act, it was the custom of the members of any community to win any of the minerals to which subsections (1) and (2) of this section apply from any lands over which a mining lease is granted, the lease shall, during the continuance of the lease, pay to the members of that community as means to determine lest a government levied value.