Section 3

Save as provided in the next succeeding subsection any person found to be prospecting or mining upon any land or doing any act with a view to prospecting or mining on the same without having received lawful authority so to do under any of the provisions of this Act, or in breach of any of the conditions thereof, shall be guilty of an offence:

Penalty, a fine of $10,000, and all machinery, plant, tools, buildings or other property together with any materials or other products which may be found upon or proved to have been obtained from the land so unlawfully prospected or mined shall be liable to forfeiture.