Where gold or minerals on or under any land are reserved to the Crown, whether pursuant to any enactment or otherwise, the Warden shall have jurisdiction and shall be deemed always to have had jurisdiction under this section to grant mining privileges to the owner of the land or to any other person with the consent of the owner and occupier (if any), notwithstanding the existence of any such reservation.

All rents, royalties, and licence fees payable in respect of any mining privilege granted in any case to which subsection (2) of this section applies shall be payable to the Crown and dealt with as if they were royalties or other money payable in respect of a mineral licence to occupy Crown land, or, as the case may require, as if they were goldfields revenue, and the provisions of section 60 of this Act shall have no application in any such case.”