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The Orissa Mining & Geology Service (Validation of Appointment) Act, 2003 Complete Act

State: Orissa

Year: 2003

.....ORISSA MINING & GEOLOGY SERVICE (VALIDATION OF APPOINTMENT) ACT, 2003 THE ORISSA MINING & GEOLOGY SERVICE (VALIDATION OF APPOINTMENT) ACT, 2003 ORISSA ACT 21 OF 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREAMBLE: SECTIONS: 1. Short title 2. Definitions 3. Validation SCHEDULE THE ORISSA MINING & GEOLOGY SERVICE (VALIDATION OF APPOINTMENT) ACT, 2003 [For the Bill, see Orissa Gazette, Extraordinary dated the 27th October, 2004 (No. 1635)] (ORISSA ACT 21 OF 2003) [Received the assent of the Governor on the 15th December 2003, first published in an extraordinary issue of the Orissa Gazette, dated the 22nd December 2003 (No. 1974)] AN ACT TO VALIDATE THE AD HOC APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN MINING OFFICERS MADE TO THE ORISSA MINING AND GEOLOGY SERVICE. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- Short title. 1 . This Act may be called the Orissa Mining and Geology Service (Validation of Appointment) Act, 2003. Definitions. 2 . In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (a) "Government" means the Government of Orissa; (b) "Recruitment Rules" means the Orissa Mining and.....

Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 Section 18A

Title: Power to Authorise Geological Survey of India, Etc., to Make Investigation

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....Government shall refer the dispute to the principal civil court of original jurisdiction having jurisdiction over the land in question. (4) The fact that there exists any such dispute as is referred to in sub-section (3) shall not be a bar to the taking of any action under sub-section (2). (5) After the completion of the investigation, the Geological Survey of India or the specified authority or agency by which the investigation was made shall submit to the Central Government a detailed report indicating therein the extent and nature of any mineral which lies deposited in or under the land. (6) The costs of the investigation made under this section shall be borne by the Central Government: Provided that where the State Government or other person in whom the minerals are vested or the holder of any prospecting licence or mining lease applies to the Central Government to furnish to it or him a copy of the report submitted under sub-section (5), that State Government or other person or the holder of a prospecting licence or mining lease, as the case may be, shall bear such reasonable part of the costs of investigation as the Central Government may specify in this behalf.....

Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....Gazette, declare to be a minor mineral; OBJECTS AND REASONS "The Committee feel that sand used for industrial purposes particularly in the manufacture of glass should not be treated as a minor mineral. It is not possible to define this kind of sand in technical and scientific terms. The Committee therefore consider that rules may describe such sand with reference to the purpose for which it may be used."-J.C.R. (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (g) "prospecting licence" means a licence granted for the purpose of undertaking prospecting operations; (h) "prospections operations" means any operations undertaken for the purpose of exploring, locating or proving mineral deposits;8[***] 9(h-a) "reconnaissance operations" means any operations undertaken for preliminary prospecting of a mineral through regional, aerial, geophysical or geochemical surveys and geological mapping, but does not include pitting, trenching, drilling (except drilling of boreholes on a grid specified from time to time by the Central Government) or sub-surface excavation; (h-b) "reconnaissance permit" means a permit granted for the purpose of undertaking reconnaissance.....

Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 Chapter VI

Title: Development of Minerals

State: Central

Year: 1957

.....Government shall refer the dispute to the principal civil court of original jurisdiction having jurisdiction over the land in question. (4) The fact that there exists any such dispute as is referred to in sub-section (3) shall not be a bar to the taking of any action under sub-section (2). (5) After the completion of the investigation, the Geological Survey of India or the specified authority or agency by which the investigation was made shall submit to the Central Government a detailed report indicating therein the extent and nature of any mineral which lies deposited in or under the land. (6) The costs of the investigation made under this section shall be borne by the Central Government: Provided that where the State Government or other person in whom the minerals are vested or the holder of any prospecting licence or mining lease applies to the Central Government to furnish to it or him a copy of the report submitted under sub-section (5), that State Government or other person or the holder of a prospecting licence or mining lease, as the case may be, shall bear such reasonable part of the costs of investigation as the Central Government may specify in this behalf.....

Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002 Chapter II

Title: General Provisions for Acquition of Operating Rights in the Offshore Areas

State: Central

Year: 2002

.....may grant an exploration licence to any person who-- (a) is eligible under section 6 for grant of operating right; (b) produces, to the satisfaction of the administering authority, evidence that such person possesses the requisite technical ability and financial resources to undertake exploration operation based on such scientific parameters, as may be prescribed; (c) submits a work programme for the area applied for, prepared in such manner and supported by such data as may be prescribed, setting forth the activities proposed to be carried out during the period of the exploration licence including the intended exploration schedule and methods to be used, an estimated schedule of expenditure, measures to prevent pollution and protect the environment and to monitor the effectiveness of environmental safeguards subject to the modifications which the administering authority may make in such work programme; (d) undertakes not to deviate from the work programme for exploration licence approved by the administering authority; and (e) has fulfilled, to the satisfaction of administering authority, all his statutory obligations under any operating right previously-- (i).....

Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002 Section 5

Title: Reconnaissance, Exploration or Production to Be Under Permit, Licence or Lease

State: Central

Year: 2002

.....of Mines, Nagpur and shall also give therein reasons and indicate whether the whole or any part of the report or data submitted by him should be kept confidential. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Central Government may-- (a) authorise seaward artillery practice under the Seaward Artillery Practice Act, 1949 (8 of 1949); (b) provide for, by notification in the Official Gazette, special measures to ensure public safety and interest, the defence of India and civil defence, conduct of the naval operations and exercises, national security and other strategic considerations and the matters connected therewith during war like conditions or otherwise. (4) No operating right shall be granted or renewed otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder and any reconnaissance permit, exploration licence or production lease granted, renewed or acquired in contravention of the provisions of this Act or any rules made thereunder, shall be void.

Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2002

.....may grant an exploration licence to any person who" (a) is eligible under Section 6 for grant of operating right; (b) produces, to the satisfaction of the administering authority, evidence that such person possesses the requisite technical ability and financial resources to undertake exploration operation based on such scientific parameters, as may be prescribed; (c) submits a work programme for the area applied for, prepared in such manner and supported by such data as may be prescribed, setting forth the activities proposed to be carried out during the period of the exploration licence including the intended exploration schedule and methods to be used, an estimated schedule of expenditure, measures to prevent pollution and protect the environment and to monitor the effectiveness of environmental safeguards subject to the modifications which the administering authority may make in such work programme; (d) undertakes not to deviate from the work programme for exploration licence approved by the administering authority; and (e) has fulfilled, to the satisfaction of administering authority, all his statutory obligations under any operating right previously" (i) granted; or.....

The Meghalaya Water Act, 2011 Complete Act

State: Meghalaya

Year: 2011

.....owner of a dam with a safety risk must promptly inform the State Government of the succession, for the substitution of the name of the owner. 18. Factors to be considered in declaring dam or category of dams with safety risk In declaring a category of dams or a dam to be a category of dams or a dam with a safety risk, the State Government must consider" (a) the need to protect the public, property and the resource quality against the potential hazard posed by the dam or category of dams; (b) the extent of potential loss or harm involved; (c) the cost of any prescribed measures and whether they are reasonably achievable; (d) the socio-economic impact if such a dam fails; and (e) in the case of a particular dam, also" (i) the manner in which that dam is designed, constructed, altered, repaired, operated, inspected, maintained or abandoned; (ii) the person by whom that dam is designed, constructed, altered, repaired, operated, inspected, maintained or abandoned; and (iii) the manner in which the water is contained, stored or impounded in that dam. CHAPTER VII USE AND MANAGEMENT OF STATE OWNED WATER SYSTEM 19. Specific Features of Transfer of Use Rights for.....

The Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Fund Act, 2003 Complete Act

State: Chattisgarh

Year: 2003

.....of a vacancy therein, or any defect in nomination of any member, if such act or proceeding is otherwise in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Section 7 - Accounting Fund (1) The accounts of the amount credited, withdrawn and spent from the Fund, from time to time, shall be maintained by the Department in the prescribed manner and shown under appropriate heads in the annual financial statement. (2) The annual financial statement shall be placed before the State Legislature, as soon as may be, after it is prepared by the Department. Section 8 - Protection of action taken in good faith No suit, prosecution or legal proceeding shall lie against the Government or the Department or an officer or an employee of the State Government or of the Directorate, or of the Corporation for anything which is done in good faith or intended to be done under this Act. Section 9 - Power to remove difficulties If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the State Government may, by an order published in the Gazette, do anything not included in the provisions of this Act, which appear to it to necessary or expedient for the purpose of removing the.....

The Kerala Protection of River Banks and Regulation of Removal of Sand Act, 2001 [1] Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 2001

..... CHAPTER V OFFENCES AND PENALTIES 20. Penalty for contravention of this Act.--Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder shall, on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term of which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees or with both and in case of continuing contravention with an additional fine which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day during which such contravention continues. 21. Abetment of offences.--Whoever abets any offence punishable by or under this Act or attempts to commit any such offence shall be punished with the penalty provided by this Act for committing such offence. 22. Punishment under other laws not barred.--Nothing in this Act shall prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other law for the time being in force for any act or omission made punishable under this Act. 23. Confiscation of vehicles.--Whoever transports sand without complying with the provisions of this Act shall be liable to be punished and the vehicle used for the transaction is liable for seizure by the Police or Revenue Officials. .....