GRANITE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT RULES, 1999

CHAPTER V

NOTICES AND RETURNS

41.Half yearly and annual returns.- (1)The owner, agent, mining engineer or manager of every granite quarry shall submit to the State Government or any person authorised in this behalf by that Government  returns in respect of such granite quarry within the time specified in respect of such returns, namely :-

(a) a half yearly return in Form-F for every half year ending 30^th September and  31^st March before the 15^th of the following month for the preceding half yearly period;

(b) an annual return in Form-G which shall be submitted before the Ist July of each year for the preceding year :

Provided that in case of abandonment or surrender of a granite quarry, such annual return shall be submitted within ninety days of the date of abandonment or surrender.

(2) The State Government or any person authorized in this behalf by that Government shall forward a copy, each of the half yearly return in Form-F and annual return in Form-G received under Clauses (a) and (b) of sub-rule (1), to the Controller General, Indian Bureau of Mines, within thirty days from the date of such receipt.

42. Notice of certain appointments.- When any new appointment is made of an agent, mining engineer, geologist and manager for the purpose of these rules or when the employment of any such person is terminated or any such person leaves the said employment or when any change occurs in the address of any such person, the owner of the granite quarry or the holder of the prospecting licence, relating to such appointment, termination, living or change in address shall, within fifteen days from the date of such appointment, termination, leaving or change in address, give a notice in Form-H to the State Government or any person authorised in this behalf by that Government.

43. Records of boreholes.- The owner, agent, mining engineer, geologist or manager of every granite quarry or the holder of a prospecting licence shall keep a record of all boreholes in Form-I and shall retain all records and samples of the strata passed through. He shall not destroy such records of boreholes and samples of strata except with the prior approval of the State Government or any person so authorised on this behalf.

44. Transfer of records of transferees.- When the ownership of a prospecting licence or a granite quarry lease is transferred, the previous owner or his agent shall make over to the new owner or his agent within a period of seven days of the transfer of the ownership, borehole cores preserved if any, all plans, sections, reports, registers and other records maintained in pursuance of the Act, rules or orders made thereunder, and all correspondence relevant thereto relating to the prospecting licence or granite quarry lease; and when the requirements of these rules have been duly complied with, both previous and the new owners or their respective agents shall forthwith send to the State Government or any person authorised in this behalf by that Government a detailed list of borehole cores, plans, sections, reports, registers and other records that have been transferred.

45. Copies of notices and returns to be maintained.- The owner, agent, mining engineer or manager of every granite quarry or a holder of a prospecting licence shall maintain the labour attendance register, production and despatch register, explosives consumption register, test reports and details of mining machinery and copies of all notices and returns, plans, sections and schemes submitted to the State Government or any person authorised in this behalf by that Government under these rules, at an office established by the licensee or lessee and these shall be made available at all reasonable times to the State Government or any person authorised in this behalf by that Government for inspection.