The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1870.”

The word “fifty” in section thirty-nine of “The Gold Fields Act 1866” is hereby repealed and the said section shall hereafter he read and construed as though the words “two hundred” had been inserted in lieu of and substituted for the word “fifty.”

The thirteenth section of “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1869” shall be read and construed as if the words nine ten eleven and twelve had been originally used therein instead of the words eight nine ten and eleven.

And whereas by “The Gold Fields Act 1866” it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor in Council in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty to demise for mining purposes to any person for any term not exceeding fifteen years from the making of the lease any auriferous land not exceeding the quantity prescribed by the said Act subject to a provision therein contained

And whereas in a Schedule to the said Act a form is prescribed for demises to be made under the before-mentioned power and in such form it was prescribed that in the case of a license to mine for gold the demise should be of full and free liberty to mine for gold in through and over the land comprised in such demise or license And whereas demises under the provisions of the said recited clause have been accustomed to be made in the form prescribed in the Schedule to the said Act and doubts have been raised whether such demises are effectual to pass the interests intended by the said Act to be demised

For obviating such doubts

Be it enacted as follows —

In all cases of demises heretofore or hereafter to be made under the provisions of the said Act such demises whether of land or of liberty to mine for gold in through and over land shall be deemed and taken to operate and to have operated as demises of the land to which the same may relate and to be and to have been valid and effectual for granting and demising such land.

It shall not be necessary that any delegation of powers by the Governor or Governor in Council under the said Acts or any of them should be under the Public Seal of the Colony and all delegations of such powers heretofore made which would have been valid if made after the passing of this Act shall be deemed to be and to have been from the making thereof valid and effectual.