Section 6:
Power to make rules as respects mineral development.
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(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power,such rules may
provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:--
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(c) the development of any 2[mineral oil resources] in any area byprescribing or regulating the use
use of any engines, machinery or other equipment;
(d) the regulation of drilling, re-drilling, deepening, shutting down, plugging andabandoning of
oilwells in an oilfield and for the limitation or prohibition ofsuch operations and for the taking of
remedial measures to prevent waste of ordamage to oil;
(e) the regulation of the methods of producing oil in any oilfield, and thelimitation or prohibition
of such methods;
(f) the compulsory notification of all new borings and shaft sinkings, and thepreservation of
boring records and specimens of cores of all new bore-holes;
(g) the taking of samples from mines and new bore-holes;
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3[(i) the collection of royalties, and the levy and collection of fees or taxes, inrespect of mineral
oils mined, quarried, excavated or collected;]
(j) the submission by the owners or lessees of mines of special or periodicalreturns and reports,
and the forms in which and the authorities to whom suchreturns and reports shall be submitted.
Notes:
1. 2.Omitted by s. 32 and the Third Schedule, ibid,(w.e.f.1-6-1958).
2. Subs. by s. 32 and the Third Schedule, ibid., for "mineral resources" (w.e.f.1-6-58).
3. Subs. by Act 39 of 1969, s. 2, for clause (i)(w.e.f. 1-1-1968).