Extraordinary Gazette of India, 2001, No. 1563

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by  Directorate of Printing, Government of India

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The Gazette of India
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MINISTRY OF MINES
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 22nd January, 2001
G.S.R. 3i(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the
Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), the Central
Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Mineral Concession
Rules, 1960, namely:-
1. (1). These rules may be called the Mineral Concession (Amendment) Rules,
2001.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official
Gazette.
2. In the Mineral Concession Rules, 1960 (hereinafter referred to as the principal
rules), in rule 14, in sub-rule (1) in clause (vii), for the proviso, the following provisos
shall be substituted, namely:-
"Provided that no prospecting licence shall be transferred to any person who has not
filed an affidavit stating that he has filed an up-to-date income-tax returns and paid the
income-tax assessed on him and paid the income tax on the basis of self-assessment as
provided in the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) and except on payment to the State
Government of a fee of five hundred rupees:
Provided further that the State Government shall not grant its sanction for the transfer
of prospecting license unless the transferee has accepted all the conditions and liabilities
which the transferor has in respect of such prospecting license:
Provided also that the State Government may, by order in writing after providing the
licensee the opportunity of being heard, cancel such prospecting license at any time if
the licensee has, in the opinion of the State Government, committed a breach of this
clause or rule ISA.".