Preamble, Short title. The Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Act, 2004.

ACTS Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXXXV, No. 36 dated 1st July, 2004 S IGNED this 10th day of May, 2004 ALHAJI AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH, President. No. 7 2004 Short title. The Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Act, 2004. Being an Act to amend the Mines and Minerals Act, 1994. Date of commencement. [1st July, 2004] ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. Amendment of Act No. 5 of 1994. The Mines and Minerals Act, 1994 is hereby amended— (a) in section 118B, by the repeal and replacement of subsection (3) thereof with the following:— “(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not less than three years”. (b) in section 118C— i. by the repeal and replacement of subsection (3) thereof with the following:— “(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not less than five years.” ii. by the insertion immediately after subsection (6) thereof of the following:— “(7) A reward of forty percent of the net proceeds of the precious minerals in connection with which the offence was committed shall be paid to any person who provided any information leading to the conviction of the offender”. Passed in Parliament this 27th day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand and four. J.A. CARPENTER Clerk of Parliament. THIS P RINTED I MPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. J.A. CARPENTER Clerk of Parliament.