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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 63

1.—Interpretation Clause

1.—Interpretation Clause.

In the construction, and for the purposes of these Regulations, the following terms shall, if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter, have the respective meanings hereby assigned to them (that is to say)—

The word "Warden" shall mean Warden, Commissioner, Resident Magistrate, or any other Officer entrusted with the superintendence of the Gold Fields, or any portion thereof, and holding a Commission duly empowering him to have charge thereof, and shall include "Warden and assessors," except where it is otherwise specially provided.

The word "person" shall mean the holder of a Miner's Right.

The word "Claim" shall mean the portion of land which the holder of a Miner's Right or of a Business License shall be entitled to mine in or occupy, or any share or interest in any claim held or granted under these Regulations.

The words "worked and abandoned ground" shall mean any ground the whole or greater portion of which has been mined upon for gold, and abandoned.

The words "new gold workings" shall mean ground previously unworked.

Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number; and words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender.