Northern Mineral Exploration Assistance Regulations — 2
2 In these Regulations, applicant means a person or group of persons whose application for a grant has been received by the Minister; ( requérant ) application means an application for a grant; ( demande ) Canadian securities dealer means a person who holds, under a law of a province relating to trading in securities, a subsisting and unsuspended licence or registration that entitles him to trade in the shares of companies; ( courtier en valeurs du Canada ) Director means the Director, Northern Policy and Program Planning Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; ( Directeur ) exploratory work means surface examinations, aerial mapping, surveying, bulldozing, geological, geophysical and geochemical examinations and any other investigations relating to the subsurface geology, and includes, (a) in relation to exploration for oil and gas, the drilling of an exploratory test well, (b) in relation to exploration for minerals, the drilling of diamond drill holes or equivalent holes in a number satisfactory to the Minister, and (c) all works necessarily undertaken in connection with any operation specified in this definition, including the construction and maintenance of those facilities necessarily connected therewith and the building and maintenance of airstrips and roads required for the supply of or access to exploratory operations; ( travaux de prospection ) gas means natural gas; ( gaz ) grant means a grant authorized by the Minister pursuant to these Regulations; ( subvention ) holdings means (a) claims located or granted and lands leased for prospecting under the Yukon Placer Mining Act , (b) mineral claims or locations and leases thereof within the meaning of the Yukon Quartz Mining Act , (c) mining claims or claims, leases thereof and permits or prospecting permits within the meaning of the Canada Mining Regulations , (d) oil and gas leases and permits within the meaning of the Canada Oil and Gas Land Regulations , (e) locations and leases thereof and permits within the meaning of the Territorial Coal Regulations , and (f) leases issued pursuant to the Territorial Dredging Regulations ; ( titres ) minerals means metals occurring in their natural state, ores of metals, coal and other naturally occurring substances capable of being mined, other than oil, gas and substances ordinarily obtained from a quarry; ( minéraux ) Minister means the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; ( ministre ) northern Canada means that part of Canada described in the schedule; ( Nord canadien ) oil means (a) crude petroleum and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity that are produced at a well head in liquid form by ordinary production methods, (b) any hydrocarbons, except coal and gas, that may be extracted or recovered from surface or subsurface deposits of oil sand, bitumen, bituminous sand, oil shale or other deposits, and (c) any other hydrocarbons except coal and gas; ( pétrole ) program expenditure means an amount expended in carrying out a program of exploratory work or a stage thereof; ( dépenses du programme ) recipient means an applicant whose application has been approved by the Minister pursuant to paragraph 5(1)(a); ( bénéficiaire ) year means a 12-month period ending on March 31st. ( année )