"الملف 22/16‎ I‏ (A 41) مدينة جوادر، النفط، التنازل المقترح والملكية" [و‎‎٧‎١] (٣٢٢/١٤٨)

No. 7552—7581—121.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT
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GEOLOGY AND MINERALS.
Simla, 15th September /p/j.
RESOLUTION.
In supersession of the rules published with Resolution Nos. 18—17—2, dated
the 20th May 1899, the Governor-General in Council is pleased to prescribe the
following rules for regulating the grant by Local Governments of licenses to pros
pect for minerals and the grant of mining leases in British India :—
Rules for the grant by Local Governments of Licenses to prospect for Minerals
and of Mining Leases in British India.
The following rules regulating the grant by Local Governments of licenses
to prospect for minerals and the grant of leases of mines and minerals have been
made by the Governor-General in Council, and sanctioned by the Secretary of
State for India in Council.
Part I. —General.
1. No license to prospect for minerals or lease of mines and minerals can
be granted by any Local Government otherwise than in accordance with these
rules, except with the previous sanction of the Secretary of State for India in
Council, or with that of the Governor-General in Council under any general or
special authority which he may have received in this behalf from the Secretary
of State in Council.
2. In these rules :—
Collector" means the Revenue Officer in charge of the district ;
" Local Government " includes a Chief Commissioner; and
"Person" includes, besides individuals, a public company registered in
India or in the United Kingdom, having a duly empowered agent
resident in India, or a syndicate, partnership or private firm of
which one or more of the members reside in India, or which has
a duly authorised agent resident in India.
3. A license or lease under these rules may be granted to any person ; in
case of the death of the person or any of the persons to whom it is granted, it
shall inure for the benefit of his legal representatives.
4. For the purposes of these rules the Local Government may, in Provinces
where there is a Board of Revenue or Financial Co.nmissioner, delegate to
such authority all or any of the powers conferred on Local Government by
these rules.
5. Nothing in these rules shall apply to minor minerals such as slate, build
ing stone, limestone and clay, the extraction of which will continue to be
regulated by such separate rules as the Local Government may lay down in
accordance with local circumstances and requirements.
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