207. A staking notice, an application for a licence, a lease or an authorization under section 32, 33 or 194.1, a report, an application for exemption from the work required under this Act, or an application for the renewal or conversion of a mining right, is deemed to have been forwarded, filed or received on the date on which it is received at the office of the registrar or at a regional office designated by ministerial order. A notice of map designation is deemed to have been filed on the date on which it is received at the office of the registrar or, if it is filed in person at a regional office designated by ministerial order, on the date on which it is received at that office.
Where a parcel of land already subject to a licence to explore for surface mineral substances or to a claim obtained by staking registered in favour of a third person is staked or map designated on the same day as that on which an application for the conversion of mining rights is filed by the third person under subdivision 5 of Division III of this chapter, the parcel of land is deemed, for the purposes of section 29, to have been staked or map designated after the filing of the application for conversion.
Applications for a licence, a lease or an authorization under section 32, 33 or 194.1 are admitted according to the order in which they are received at the office of the registrar or a regional office designated by ministerial order. Staking notices are admitted according to the date and time of the staking. Notices of map designation are admitted according to the order in which they are received at the office of the registrar or, if they are filed in person at a regional office designated by ministerial order, according to the order in which they are received at that office.
Applications for a licence, lease or authorization under section 32 or 33, where they relate to the same parcel of land and are received on the same day, shall be admitted in the order established by a drawing of lots. Every person who intends to take part in the drawing of lots must, beforehand, pay the duties fixed by regulation and comply with the conditions for participation prescribed by regulation.
However, applications for a licence or lease relating to petroleum, natural gas or underground reservoirs, and authorizations to produce brine, shall be admitted in the order established by a drawing of lots or a call for tenders, as decided by the Minister.
1987, c. 64, s. 207; 1988, c. 9, s. 39; 1990, c. 36, s. 10; 1998, c. 24, s. 103; 2003, c. 15, s. 24.