guilty of the offence punishable under Rule 48K read with Rule
58(1) of the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1967 and
convicted thereunder ... Kerala
Minor Mineral Concession Rules, the facts constituting the
offence are removal or transportation of minor minerals without
cash memorandum in Form-P prepared
minerals, the MMDR
Act has categorised minerals into two; minor minerals and
other minerals. As regards minor minerals alone legislative
powers by way of Rule ... other States. Rule
108 of the 2015 Kerala Rules, or even Rule 58 of the 1967
Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules, will not deal with
published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary
dated 06.10.2015) by which proviso to Rule 12 of the
Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2015 has been
inserted ... minor minerals
of an area less than 5 hectares. The State Government
in pursuance of the Notification has framed the
Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules
minor minerals from
the property having an extent of 1.6190 hectares, subject to the
terms and conditions contained in the Kerala Minor Mineral
Concession Rules ... Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act,
1957, for regulating the extraction of minor minerals in the State
of Kerala. Clause (v) of Rule 3 define
make rules in respect of minor minerals.
In exercise of that power, Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules,
1967 have been framed. Since ordinary earth ... definition of minor mineral was amended,
incorporating ordinary earth also as per Exhibit P8, Schedule I to
the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules
scheme of the Kerala Rules, as distributed among different Chapters
II, III, IV etc of the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules framed
by the State ... respect of 'minor minerals' and it is in exercise of the said
power that the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules 1967 (KMMC
Rules
them, while issuing a permit under Rule 4 of the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1967, the Geologist is competent to impose only the conditions ... said conditions are clearly unauthorised by the provisions of the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1967. The stipulation contained in condition No. 2, regarding
accumulated due to building construction, to obtain mineral
transit pass under the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession
Rules, 2015.
14. Rule 14 of the Kerala Minor ... resulting from the afore provisions in
the Kerala Panchayat Building Rules, 2019 and the Kerala
Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2015 is that the Panchayat
authorities
tenth respondent for
extraction of granite building stones under the Kerala Minor
Minerals Concession Rules, 2015 (the Rules).
2. The tenth respondent was earlier issued ... were
compounded under the provisions of Rule 111 of the Kerala
Minor Mineral Concession Rules. When I say this, it must not
be misunderstood that
Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1967
(hereinafter referred to as "the 1967 Rules").
Amendment made to Rule 8 of the 1967 Rules ... invoking the provisions of Kerala Minor Mineral
Concession Rules, 1967 for the purpose of mining
operations of minor minerals in the State.
(iii) To issue
