'File 22/16 I (A 41) GWADUR, Oil, Proposed Cession and Ownership' [‎71v] (149/322)

6. The issue of exploring licen?es authorising the surface of land to be
searched for minerals having been discontinued, the surface of unoccupied and
unreserved land which is the property of Government may be freely searched
without authority. In the case of occupied land search can be made only with
the consent of the occupier.
Provided that in the case of Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan.
Province, no operations for the exploration of the surface of land for minerals
shall be carried on, except under a license granted on such terms as the Local
Administration may prescribe.
Certificate of approval.
7. No prospecting license or mining lease shall be granted except to a
person holding a certificate of approval from the Local Government, within
w hose jurisdiction the land lies for which the license or lease is asked.
8. A certificate of approval shall have effect from the date thereof, and
shall expire at midnipht on the 31st of December next following; provided that
a certificate issued in the last quarter of the year shall be valid until the 31st
of December of the year following. Only one person shall be named in the
certificate. The fee payable therefor shall be Rs. 50, and the certificate shall
cover applicalions in respect of minerals of all kinds.
9. A certificate of approval may be renewed at the discretion of the Local
Government on payment of a fee of Rs. 10, if the application for renewal is
received within one month after the date of expiry of the original certificate.
Otherwise the full fee of Rs. 50 shall be charged. The Local Government may
delegate to any officer not below the rank of Collector, the power to renew a cer
tificate of approval on payment of the prescribed fee, in any case in which the
certificate holder has carried on operations under a prospecting license or mining
lease within the jurisdiction of the officer to whom the power is delegated.
10. The names of persons to, whom certificates approval have been
granted shall be published in the Local Government Gazette, and every applica"
tion for a prospecting license or a mining lease shall contain a statement
of the number and date of the Gazette notification of the certificate of
approval.
11. Before considering an application for a prospecting license or a mining
lease, the Collector shall verify the Gazette notification quoted, and shall
refuse any application for a license or a mining lease from a person not in
possession of a valid certificate of approval : provided that the Collector
may at his discretion require the production of the original certificate of
approval.
12. Licenses or leases previously granted may be held by a grantee who is
no longer in possession of a certificate of approval.
Part II.—-Prospecting Licenses.
13. A license to prospect for minerals or mineral oil, called hereinafter a
prospecting license, shall confer on the licensee the sole right, subject to the
condiiions contained in the license, to mine, quarry, bore, dig and search for,
win, work, and carry away any mineral or mineral oil lying, or being within,
under or throughout the land specified in the license.
Provided that the right to prospect for reserved minerals shall be exercised
only by British subjects.
14. A prospecting license shall be granted only in respect of land in which
the mines, minerals, or mineral oils are the property of Government.
15. Every application for a prospecting license shall, unless the Local
Government shall in any case otherwise direct, be made to the Collector of the
district in which the land or some part of the land with respect to which the
license is required is situate.