Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where any holder of a prospecting Licence or mining lease omits or fails to comply with the provision of this Act or any rule made thereunder of relating to safety, the authority empowered under Section 23 may give notice in writing requiring such holder of prospecting licence or mining lease to comply with the provisions relating to safety within such time as may be specified in the notice or within such extended time as that authority may, from time to time, allow. (2) Where the holder of the prospecting licence or mining lease fails to comply with the terms of the notice given under Sub- section (1) within the period specified in the notice or, as the case may be, within extended time allowed under that Subsection, the empowered authority may, by order in writing, prohibit the employment in or about the land or mine or any part thereof, of any person whose employment is not, in the opinion of that authority, reasonably necessary for securing compliance with the terms of the notice. (3) Every person whose employment is prohibited under Sub-section (2) shall be entitled to payment of full wages for the period for which he would have been, but for the prohibition, in employment, and the holder of the prospecting licence or mining lease, as the case may be, shall be liable for payment of such full wages of the person. Provided that the holder of the prospecting licence or, as the case may be, mining lease may, instead of paying such full wages provide alternative employment at the same wages which such employee was receiving in the employment which he was prohibited under Sub-section (2). Notice to be given of accidents