246. No provision of this Act, or of a development plan, an interim control by-law or resolution or a zoning, subdivision or building by-law has the effect of preventing the staking or designation on a map of a claim, or exploration or search for or the development or exploration of mineral substances or underground reservoirs, carried on in accordance with the Mining Act (chapter M-13.1).
The first paragraph does not apply to the extraction of sand, gravel or building stone on private lands where, under the Mining Act, the right to those mineral substances belongs to the owner of the soil.
1979, c. 51, s. 246; 1987, c. 64, s. 331; 1994, c. 32, s. 24; 1996, c. 25, s. 79.