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The Mines Act, 1923

( ACT NO. IV OF 1923 )

Chapter VII

REGULATIONS RULES AND BYE-LAWS

Prior publication of regulations and rules
31.(1) The power to make regulations and rules conferred by sections 29, 30 and 30A is subject to the condition of the regulations and rules being made after previous publication.
 
 
(2) The date to be specified in accordance with clause (3) of section 23 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, as that after which a draft of regulations or rules proposed to be made will be taken under consideration, shall not be less than three months from the date on which the draft of the proposed regulations or rules is published for general information.
 
 
(3) Before the draft of any regulation is published under this section it shall be referred to every Mining Board constituted in Bangladesh, which is, in the opinion of the Government concerned with the subject dealt with by the regulation; and the regulation shall not be so published until each such Board has had a reasonable opportunity of reporting as to the expediency of making the same and as to the suitability of its provisions.
 
 
1[(3A) No rule shall be made unless the draft thereof has been referred to every Mining Board constituted in the part of Bangladesh affected by the rule, and unless each Board has had a reasonable opportunity of reporting as to the expediency of making the same and as to the suitability of its provisions.]
 
 
(4) Regulations and rules shall be published in the official Gazette, and, on such publication, shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.
 
 
(5) The provisions of sub-sections (1), (2) and (3A) shall not apply to the first occasion on which rules referred to in clause (bb) or clause (bbb) of section 30 are made.

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    Sub-section (3A) was inserted by section 7 of the Indian Mines (Amendment) Act, 1928 (Act No. XIII of 1928)
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