Schedule C., The Concessions Ordinance

RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY PERSONS OBTAINING CONCESSIONS IN COLONY OR PROTECTORATE. 1. Any person desiring to obtain a concession in the Colony or Protectorate must, in the first instance, apply to the Governor through the Minister for permission to obtain a licence to prospect. 2. The Governor, if the application appears to him to be one which should be granted, will so acquaint the District Commissioner of the District in which the concession is desired and will so advise the applicant. 3. The applicant must present his letter of advice to such Commissioner, who, if he is unaware of any local objection to the will recommend to the Governor to issue a licence to prospect in named by the applicant, and will at the same time acquaint Authority or other native concerned and instruct them to give the nec3esl>ar·v facilities. 4. A licence may be issued to different prospectors for the same 5. The holder of a licence to prospect may remove from the which he has prospected a sufficient quantity of timber, rubber, or products of the soil to serve as specimens, but he must declare them to the District Commissioner of the District in which he has. prospected and state the name or position of the place or places from which they were taken. But this rule will not preclude any claim being brought against any prospector for compensation for damage done, or for the value of any product of the soil removed. 6. The holder of a licence to prospect may apply to the Tribal Authority or other native concerned for a concession over land in the locality in which he was licensed to prospect, and the Tribal Authority or other native concerned may grant the concession if they are willing to do so, but no such application or grant may be made by or to any person not holding a licence to prospect in that locality. 7. Every application for a concession must be notified to the District Commissioner, who will instruct the Tribal Authority or other native concerned to appear before him and will ascertain from them in the presence of the applicant or his agent whether they are willing to grant the concession applied for, and are prepared to co-operate. The District Commissioner will arrange with the applicant or his agent, in the presence of the Tribal Authority or other native concerned, the sum which they should pay annually in consideration of the concession. 8. The terms of the agreement made between the applicant and the Trib~>l Authority or other native concerned are to be embodied by the former in a concession which is to be executed by the interested parties in the presence of a District Commissioner; and the District Commissioner, before whom any such interested party executes such concession, shall certify to the due execution of such concession by such party. The concession is to contain full particulars of boundaries and a suitable plan showing the same. 9. Every application for a concession, which must be accompanied by tb.e prospector's licence, shall, upon receipt by the District Commissioner, be arked by him with the date and time of receipt, and applications for ~ncessions in the same locality shall be considered and dealt with in the ~rder of their receipt. Applications to be dealt with consecutively.