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Section 19, The Tonkolili Agreement Ordinance

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(a) Upon the surrender or other determination of the Permanent Lease or of any portion thereof under Clause 8 of this Agreement or otherwise the Company shall be granted a period of not less than twelve months or such longer period as the Government may allow immediately following such expiration or determination in which to remove all or any of the buildings plant machinery or effects the property of the Company from land the subject of the lease or portion of the lease so surrendered or determined. (b) Upon the surrender or other determination of any mining right or mining lease for minerals other than iron ore granted to the Company in pursuance of this Agreement the Company may within six months or such longer period as the Government may allow of such surrender or determination remove from land the subject of such lease any buildings plant machinery or effects the property of the Company. (c) Within one month of the surrender or other determination of the First or Second Licence or of any part of the areas held thereunder or within such longer period as the Government may allow the Company may remove from the Tonkolili areas or the delimited areas any buildings plant machinery or effects the property of the Company. (d) Provided that the Company shall not be obliged to remove buildings plant machinery or effects from land the subject of any mining right or mining lease the area of which upon its surrender or determination lies wholly or partly within or is bounded or partly bounded by the Tonkolili areas or the delimited areas or the demised areas as the case may be. (e) Any buildings plant machinery or effects the property of the Company , which are not removed in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) (and may not remain under paragraph (d) ) of this clause within the periods stated therein or such longer periods as the Government may allow shall at the termination of such respective periods become the property of the Government. (f) Nothing in this clause contained shall prejudice the right of the Government under Section 37 (2) of the Minerals Ordinance to take possession * of any buildings plant machinery or other effects the property of the Company which on the expiration surrender or other determination of any lease is left upon the area of such lease if the Company is knowingly in default for more than three months in the payment of any rent royalties or other payments due to the Government in respect of such lease.

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