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Amendment of section 9.- For section 9 of the Principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely:- “9. Duties of the Authority.- (1) The Authority shall meet once in a month and meeting shall be called by the member secretary. If for any reason it is necessary, the member secretary may with the approval of the chairman, convene the meeting at any time. One third of the total members shall form the quorum for the meetings. (2) The duties of the Authority shall be,- (x) to cause Joint Inspection of stone crushers and obtain report by the concerned officers of Mines and Geology, Revenue, Forest departments and KSPCB to verify the conditions stipulated for declaring the safer zone; (xi) to declare the safer zone, which are conforming the norms; (xii) to issue Certificate of compliance of safer zone in such form as may be prescribed to the applicants having stone crusher located in declared safer zone; (xiii) to issue License in the form as may be prescribed; (xiv) to supervise licensed premises and report any violations to the chairman; (xv) to suspend/cancel the license for non-compliance of the conditions; (xvi) to invite any of the officers of any other departments of Government to assist the Authority on any specific issues like computation of compensation, provide technical advice etc. (xvii) to follow the orders and guidelines issued by the Government from time to time; and (xviii) to Inspect or authorize an officer to inspect each stone crushers periodically at least once a year.”