(1) Any person aggrieved by any order made by the State Government or other authority in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the Act or these rules may, within three months of the date of communication of the order to him, apply to the Central Government in triplicate in Form N for revision of the order. The application should be accompanied by a Bank Draft for 1 [five thousand rupees] on a nationalised bank in the name of 'Pay and Accounts Officer, Department of Mines' payable at New Delhi or through a treasury challan for 1 [five thousand rupees] under the Head of Account - 0853 - Non-ferrous Mining and Metallurgical Industries -102 Mineral Concession Fees, Rents and Royalties :
Provided that any such application may be entertained after the said period of three months if the applicant satisfies the Central Government that he had sufficient cause for not making the application within time.
2 [(1A) Omitted.]
(2) In every application under sub-rule (1) against the order of a State Government refusing to grant a prospecting licence or a mining lease, any person to whom a prospecting licence or mining lease was granted in respect of the same area or for a part thereof, shall be impleaded as party.
(3) Along with the application under sub-rule (1), the applicant shall submit as many copies thereof as there are parties impleaded under sub-rule (2).
(4) On receipt of the application and the copies thereof, the Central Government shall send a copy of the application to each of the parties impleaded under sub-rule (2) specifying a date on or before which he may make his representations, if any, against the revision application.