REGISTERED No. D. 221

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 75]

NEW DELHI, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1970/CHAITRA 16,1892

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed

as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND CHEMICALS AND MINES AND METALS

(Department of Petroleum and Chemicals)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 4th April 1970

G.S.R. 619.—Whereas certain draft

rules

further to

amend the Petroleum

Rules, 1937 were published as required by sub-section (2) of section 29 of the

Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934) at pages 713-714 of the Gazette of India

Ex-

traordinary Part II—Section 3 sub-section (i). dated the 17th November,

1969,

under the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Petroleum

and Chemicals and mines and Metals (Department of Petroleum and Chemicals),

No. G.S.R. 2644 dated the 17th November, 1969, inviting objections and sugges-

tions from all persons likely to be affected thereby till the 31st December, 1989;

And whereas the said Gazette was made available to public on the 6th Dec-

ember, 1969;

And whereas no objections and suggestions were received

from the public

and the only suggestion received from the Department of Explosives on the said

draft has been considered by the Central Government;

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N ° w - therefore, 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-sec-

tion (1) of section 29 of the Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934), the Central Gov-

ernment hereby makes the follovring rules further to amend the Petroleum Rules,

1037, namely:—

1. (1) These rules may be called the Petroleum (Second Amendment)

Rules,

(2) They «hall come Into force on the date of their publication in the

Official Gazette.

2. In the Petroleum Rules, 1937 (hereinafter called the said rules) for sub-

rulo (3) of rule 115, the following aub-rule shall be substituted, namely: —

"(3) Where the licensing authority is the Chief

Inspector or the Senior

Inspector or an Inspector of Explosives,

applicant for a new

licence may apply to the District 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 the Senior Inspector or an In-

spector of explosives as the case may be with hia application

Form D.

The no objection certificate so granted shall be liable to

be cancelled or withdrawn by the District Authority or the State

Government, if the District Authority or the State Government is

satisfied that the licensee has ceased to have any right to use

the

site 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 eub-rule shall

be »ubitituted, namely: —

"(1) Every licence granted under these rules,—

the site for storing petroleum;

(11) shall stand cancelled, if the no objection certificate is cancelled or with-

drawn by the District Authority or the State Government, in accordance

with sub-rule (8) or rule 115;

(lii) shall be liable to be suspended or cancelled, by an order of the licensing

authority for any contravention of the Act or of any rule thereunder

or of any condition contained in such licence".

[No. F. 18/1/88-IOC.]

M. V. RAJWADE, Jt. Secy.

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