Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Registers of prospecting licences and mining leases.―(1) The State Government shall cause to be maintained in the prescribed form― (a) a register of applications for prospecting licences; (b) a register of prospecting licensees; 2[(c) a register of applications for mining leases; (d) a register of mining lessees; (e) a register of applications for reconnaissance permits; and (f) a register of reconnaissance permits,] in each of which shall be entered such particulars as may be prescribed. (2) Every such register shall be open to inspection by any person on payment of such fee as the State Government may fix. 3[12A. Transfer of mineral concessions.―(1) The provisions of this section shall not apply to minerals specified in Part A or Part B of the First Schedule. (2) A holder of a mining lease or a prospecting licence-cum-mining lease granted in accordance with the procedure laid down in section 10B or section 11 may, with the previous approval of the State Government, transfer his mining lease or prospecting licence-cum-mining lease, as the case may be, in such manner as may be prescribed by the Central Government, to any person eligible to hold such mining lease or prospecting licence-cum-mining lease in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder. (3) If the State Government does not convey its previous approval for transfer of such mining lease or prospecting licence-cum-mining lease, as the case may be, within a period of ninety days from the date of receiving such notice, it shall be construed that the State Government has no objection to such transfer: