action should not be initiated to realize a
sum of money towards seigniorage fee which includes five times penalty
over and above the normal seigniorage ... directly by the sub
contractors concerned. The agencies have been paying the seigniorage fee
directly to the Department of Mines and Geology. In between meeting
State Government. In the case of minor minerals, the royalty is called seigniorage. It is stated that from 01.10.2003 onwards, quarrying of sand by private ... price includes the value of the sand, quarrying cost, loading charges and seigniorage. Till 25.08.2008, the sand so purchased was permitted to be transported either
Concession Area;
(b) Declaration that the State has no right to
claim seigniorage, Kuttikanam or any other payment
in respect of the said timber ... that the State of
Kerala had no right or claim for the seigniorage or
Kuttikanam or any other payment in respect of the said
timber
Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956
7. Prohibition of levy of seigniorage, etc.
(1) No State Government shall, by reason only of the fact ... limits of the State, impose, or authorize the imposition of, any seigniorage or additional rate or fee (by whatever name called) in respect
execution of the works entrusted to them. As regards the payment of seigniorage fee on the minor minerals excavated by the contractors, a specific clause ... execution of works, for themselves. As regards the payment of seigniorage fee, the following clause in the form of clause No. 7 had been incorporated
logs collected, their volume, their category and their value based on proportionate seigniorage with reference to the rate that prevailed in 1982-83. Thereafter ... rates were fixed based on market rates of the concerned species. The seigniorage rate also was not considered applicable as those rates are applicable
prays for the issue of a writ of declaration declaring that the Seigniorage fee prescribed under Appendix-II of the Tamil Nadu Minor Mineral Concession ... mineral (150 cubic feet) is lifted, the petitioners are liable to pay seigniorage fee for seven cart loads. If ten cubic fee of land
petitioner was
demanded to pay a certain sum of money representing the
seigniorage fee, market value and penalty, failing which it was
stated that necessary ... along with the market value of the mineral and the
seigniorage fee. The counter affidavit does not deal with the
issue raised by the petitioner
every person using minor mineral is required to pay the prescribed seigniorage fee on the mineral used and in default he is liable ... penalty of five times the seigniorage fee. They arc required to use minor minerals like concrete, sand etc. Earlier, as per the then existing procedure
lease and quashed the impugned demand notices issued by the
appellants demanding seigniorage rates from the lessees for all the
produce cut and removed from ... area by
them.
The dispute centres round the validity of demand of seigniorage
rates raised by the appellants in respect of cutting and removing
eucalyptus
