RULE-95

BALOCHISTAN MINERAL RULES, 2002 BALOCHISTAN MINERAL RULES, 2002 [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 9th March, 2002] No. S.O.(MR)4-6/2002, dated 8-1-2002.--In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2, of the Regulation of Mines and Oil-Fields and Mineral Development (Government Control) Act, 1948, (XXIV of 1948) the Government of Balochistan is pleased to make the flowing Rules:-- PART IV SPECIAL PROVISION RELATING TO SMALL SCALE MINING Division-3 Mining Lease 95. Local participation: The licensing authority shall have the right - (a) Association of local capital - To require the applicant for the grant of a prospecting licence or a mining lease to associate capital furnished by such residents of the District or the Division where, in the area applied for is situated to such extent as may be approved by the licensing authority. (b) Submission of statistical data to Statistical organizations To require the Licensee or Lessee to submit statistical data and such information as may be required for the purpose of planning and development to all Government approved Statistical Organizations in such forms as may be prescribed. (c) To require the Licensee or Lessee to grade, beneficiate, refine and concentrate the mineral to attain the standards fixed by a general or special order of the licensing authority or Government or to set up a plant with in time limit prescribed by the licensing authority, the product of which requires the use of mineral for which prospecting licence or mining lease is held as a major raw material. Violation of any order made by the licensing authority in exercise of its rights under (g) and (h) shall render all the concessions held by him liable to cancellation: