(1) A register of applications for grant or renewal of mining leases shall be maintained in the office of the Director in Form ML-3.
(2) A register of mining leases granted under these rules shall be maintained in the office of the Director and the Officer-in-charge of the district concerned in Form ‘ML-4’.
13. The register of applications for grant of mining leases and the register of grant of mining leases shall be open to inspection by any person on payment of a fee of Rs. 100/- on any working day.
14. No person by himself or with any other person(s) joint in interest with him, shall ordinarily hold more than 1,000 hectares of area in aggregate in case of mining lease(s) granted under rule 9 in the state of Haryana. However, the area granted under a lease under rule 10 shall not be taken into account for this purpose:
Provided that this limit may be suitably relaxed in case of concession areas linear in nature, such as river-bed mining.
Provided further that the lessee shall be entitled to surrender any part of the area originally granted at the time of renewal of any lease, subject to the conditions prescribed in these rules.
15. The area for any mining lease should be compact and contiguous as far as possible.
However, no mining lease shall be granted for an area of less than one hectare in case of isolated and small deposits.