8. From and after the 1st of January 1921, all minerals have belonged and shall belong to the Crown under the soil of land which, on the 24th of July 1880, had not yet been patented, except in the case of the person who acquired such land or his assigns having, before the 1st of January 1921, established, to the satisfaction of the Minister, that all the conditions of the location ticket respecting such land had been fulfilled on the 24th of July 1880.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 34, s. 8.