46. No claim obtained by the staking of land remains valid unless a notice of staking is filed in the office of the registrar or in a regional office designated by ministerial order within 20 days of the staking and is subsequently registered in the public register of real and immovable mining rights.
Notwithstanding the first paragraph, where the claim lies north of the fifty-second degree of latitude, the prescribed time is 30 days.
1987, c. 64, s. 46; 1988, c. 9, s. 16.