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  "title": "PUNJAB MINOR MINERAL (CANCELLATION OF LEASES) ORDINANCE, 1977",
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  "text": "THE PUNJAB MINOR MINERAL (CANCELLATION OF \r\nLEASES) ACT, 1977 \r\n(VII of 1977) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement \r\n2. Definitions \r\n3. Cancellation of Lease \r\n4. Payment of Compensation \r\n5. Repeal of Punjab Ordinance No. V of 1977 \r\n \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PUNJAB MINOR MINERAL (CANCELLATION OF LEASES) ACT, \r\n1977 \r\n(VII of 1977) \r\n[14th June, 1977] \r\nAn \r\nAct \r\nto provide for the cancellation of certain mining leases of Minor Minerals. \r\nPreamble.– WHEREAS it is in the public interest to make provision for the \r\ncancellation of certain leases of minor minerals; \r\nIt is hereby enacted as follows:– \r\n1. Short title , extent and commencement .– (1) This Act may be called the \r\nPunjab Minor Mineral (Cancellation of Leases) Act,1977. \r\n(2) It shall extend to the Province of the Punjab. \r\n(3) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Definitions.– In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:– \r\n(a) “Director” means Dire ctor of Industries and Mineral Development, \r\nPunjab; \r\n(b) “Government” means the Government of the Punjab; \r\n(c) “Minor Minerals” mean s ordinary sand, ordinary stone and gravel and \r\nshall include the limestone aggregate; and \r\n(d) “Lease” means lease of a minor m ineral subsisting immediately before \r\nthe commencement of this Act. \r\n3. Cancellation of Lease .– (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary \r\ncontained in any la w for the time being in force, the Pakistan Mining Concession \r\nRules,1960, as applicable to the Province of the Punjab, custom, usage, order of any \r\ncourt, lease deed or agreement, but subject to the provisions of sub -section (2) all \r\nleases of minor minerals granted by any officer or authority, other than the Deputy \r\nCommissioner through open auction in p ursuance of the provisions of the \r\nGovernment of the Punjab, Industries and Mineral Development Department \r\nNotification No. V -1-32/72, dated 26.6.1973, shall stand terminated with immediate \r\neffect. \r\n (2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1), shall apply to the lease granted to \r\na Federal or Provincial Government Department or a body established by or under a \r\nProvincial or Federal Law: \r\n Provided that where such a Department or a body has sublet the lease, it \r\nshall also stand terminated. \r\n                                                 \r\n1This Act was passed by the Punjab Assembly on 10th June,  1977; assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on 14th June, \r\n1977; and, published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 14th June, 1977, pages 821-823. \r\n4. Payment of Compensati on.– (1) A Lessee whose lease is cancelled under \r\nsection 3 of this  Act, shall be paid by Government such compensation in respect of \r\nsuch roads and buildings, if any, constructed by him, as in the opinion of the Director \r\nwere necessary for carrying out the mining operations, as the Director may \r\ndetermine. \r\n (2) The Government may, on its own motion or on the application of a \r\nlessee made within a period of one month from the receipt of intimation of \r\ndetermination of compensation by the Director, call for and examine the record of the \r\nproceedings regarding determination of compensation for the purposes of satisfying \r\nit as to the  correctness, legality or proprie ty of any  finding or order recorded or \r\npassed and after hearing the lessee pass such order as it may deem just and fit. \r\n(3) Subject to the order of the Government, the decision of the Director \r\nunder sub-section (1), and the order of the Government made under sub -section (2), \r\nshall be final an d conclusive and shall not be called in question in any court, or \r\nbefore any officer or authority. \r\n5. Repeal of Punjab Ordinance No.  V of 1977 .– The Punjab Minor Mineral \r\n(Cancellation of Leases) Ordinance, 1977 ( Punjab Ordinance No.  V of 1977), is \r\nhereby repealed.",
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