(1) Any person aggrieved by any order made by the administering authority or officer 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 prefer an appeal to the Central Government, in triplicate, in Form X.
Provided that any such appeal may be entertained after the said period of three months if the appellant satisfies the Central Government that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within time.
(2) In every application made under sub-rule (1) against the order of an administering authority refusing to grant a reconnaissance permit, an exploration licence or a production lease, any person to whom reconna-issance permit or exploration licence or production lease was granted in respect of the same area or for a part thereof, shall be impleaded as party.
(3) The applicant shall, along with the memorandum of appeal under sub-rule (1), 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 appeal.'