Section 30 Persons entitled to compensation under section 29.

The right to compensation under section 29 in respect of mines and minerals of any description in any land shall be deemed to have vested in the persons who, immediately before the commencement of section 1(1), were entitled to any estate in the mines and minerals of that description in that land and may be disposed of or shall devolve accordingly.

Where, by virtue of section 9(1), section 1(1) is deemed to have had effect with respect to any mines and minerals so as to vest them in the Ministry, subsection (1) shall have effect as if the reference therein to the persons who, immediately before the commencement of section 1(1), were entitled to any estate in the mines and minerals were a reference to the persons who, immediately before section 1(1) was first deemed to have had effect with respect to those mines and minerals, were entitled to such an estate.