The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 179] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1969/KARTIKA 26, 1891
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MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND CHEMICALS AND MINES AND METALS
(Department of Petroleum and Chemicals)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 15th November 1969
G.S.R. 2644.—The following draft of certain rules further to amend the Petro- leum Rules, 1937, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4, sub-section (2) of section 5, sub-section (2) of section 14, sections 21 and 22 and sub-section (1) of section 29 of the Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934), is hereby published, as required by sub-section (2) of sec- tion 29 of the said Act, for the information of all persons likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft will be taken into con- sideration on or after the 31st December, 1969.
714 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(0] Draft Rules 1. These rules may be called the Petroleum (First Amendment) Rules, 1969.2. In the Petroleum Rules, 1937 (herelnatfer called the said rules), for sub- rule (3) of rule 115, the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely: —
"(3) Where the licensing authority is the Chief Inspector or an Inspector of Explosives an applicant for a new licence may apply to the Dis- trict Authority for a certificate to the effect that there is no objection to the applicant receiving a licence for the site proposed and the District Authority shall, if he sees no objection, grant such certificate to the applicant who may forward it to the Chief Inspector or an Inspector of Explosives as the case may be -with his application in Form D. The no objection certificate so granted shall be liable to be cancelled or withdrawn by the District Authority or the State Gov- ernment, if the District Authority or the State Government is satis- fled that the licensee has ceased to have any right to use the sita for storing petroleum, or that the licensee is unable to meet satisfactorily from the petroleum storage site the normal day-to-day requirements of the area".
3. In the said rules, for sub-rule (1) of rule 121, the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely: —
"(1) Every licence granted under these rules,—
(i) shall stand cancelled, if the licensee ceases to have any right to use tha site for storing petroleum;
(ii) shall stand cancelled, if the no objection certificate is cancelled or withdrawn by the District Authority or the State Government, in accordance with sub-rule (3) of rule 115;
(iii) shall be liable to be suspended or cancelled, by an order of the licens- ing authority for any contravention of the Act or of ^any rule there- under or of any condition contained in such licence".
[No. 18/1/88-IQ.C1
MADHAV RAJWADE, Jt. Secy.