(1) The State Government may, after giving an opportunity of being heard and for reasons to be recorded in writing and communicated to the applicant, refuse to grant or renew a prospecting licence over the whole or part of the area applied for.
(1A) An application for the grant or renewal of a prospecting licence made under rule 9 shall not be refused by the State Government only on the ground that Form B or Form E, as the case may be, is not complete in all material particulars, or is not accompanied by the documents referred to in clauses (d), (e), (f) and (g) of sub-rule (2) of the said rule.
(1B) Where it appears that the application is not complete in all material particulars or is not accompanied by the required documents, the State Government shall, by notice, require the applicant to supply the omission or, as the case may be, furnish the documents without delay and in any case not later than thirty days from the date of receipt of the said notice by the applicant.
(2) An application for the grant of a prospecting licence shall not be refused on the ground only that, in the opinion of the State Government, a mining lease should be granted for the area for which the application for a prospecting licence has been made:
Provided that where applications for the grant of prospecting licence and applications for the grant of mining lease in respect of the same area are received on the same date or on different dates within a period of thirty days, the applications for the grant of mining lease shall, if the area was previously held and worked under a mining lease, be disposed of before the applications for the grant of prospecting licence are considered.
2 [Provided further that the applications received for grant of prospecting licence shall be liable to be considered only if they have not been already disposed of.]
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3 [Omitted.]
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1. Inserted by G.S.R. 56(E), dated 17.1.2000. 2. Ibid. 3.Omitted by G.S.R. 56(E), dated 17.1.2000.
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13A. Status of grant on death of the applicant for prospecting licence :
(1) Where an applicant for the grant of a prospecting licence dies before the order granting him a prospecting licence is passed, the application for the grant of a prospecting licence shall be deemed to have been made by his legal representative.
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(2) In the case of an applicant in respect of whom an order granting a prospecting licence is passed but who dies before the deed referred to in sub-rule
(1) of rule 15 is executed, the order shall be deemed to have been passed in the name of the legal representative of the deceased.