Minerals Exploration and Development Company Act, 1941

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Power of the Minister to require the Company to prospect.

13.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister at any time or times to require the Company to apply to the Minister for the grant under the Act of 1940 of a prospecting licence in respect of any particular land and, upon receiving such prospecting licence, to prospect and examine such land for the purpose of ascertaining the nature and quantity of the minerals in such land and the advisability of working such minerals.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Company to comply with any requisition made by the Minister under the foregoing sub-section of this section.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, to pay to the Company from time to time, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, such sums as the Minister shall think proper for the purpose of complying with requisitions made by the Minister under this section.

(4) Not more than three thousand pounds shall be paid by the Minister to the Company under this section in any one financial year, and all sums so paid shall be expended by the Company exclusively in defraying expenses incurred in complying with requisitions made by the Minister under this section.