Minerals Development Act, 1940

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Applications for ancillary rights licences.

40.—(1) Any person who desires to obtain under this Act a licence (in this Act referred to as an ancillary rights licence) to exercise an ancillary right in relation to the working of minerals which he is entitled (otherwise than under a State mining lease or a State acquired minerals licence) to work may apply in writing to the Minister for the grant to him of an ancillary rights licence in respect of the working of the said minerals.

(2) Every application under this section for an ancillary rights licence shall be made in the prescribed form and manner and shall be verified in the prescribed manner and shall contain the particulars required by the said prescribed form, including a statement of the facts relied on by the applicant in support of his application.

(3) Within the prescribed time after making an application under this section, the applicant shall serve in the prescribed manner a copy of the said application on every of the prescribed persons.

(4) Any person on whom a copy of an application under this section is served in pursuance of the next preceding sub-section of this section may, if he so thinks fit, make to the Minister at any time within such period, not being less than three weeks after the service of such copy on him, as may be prescribed, representations in respect of the said application.