State Act

The Telangana Mica Act, 1957.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (i) “block mica” means trimmed mica and dressed mica with thickness ranging from 8 to 12 mils (one mil-1,000th of an inch); (ii) “broker” means any person engaged in establishing contact between the purchaser and seller of mica by whatever name such person is known and who has obtained a dealer’s licence; (iii) “chillas” means films or thins with thickness ranging from 2 to 8 mils; (iv) “controlled area” means the district or local area in which this Act is brought into force under sub-section (3) of section 1; (v) “crude mica” means mica in its rough state before it has been trimmed or subjected to any process; (vi) “dealer” means a person who holds a dealer’s licence; (vii) ‘‘dealer’s licence” means a licence granted under section 5 authorising a person to whom it is granted- (a) to act as a broker between persons engaged in the transactions of buying, selling, or both buying and selling mica; (b) to buy or sell and to have in possession mica- (1) extracted, from a mica mine which is in the controlled area and of which he is not in possession or from a mica dump; or (2) imported into any controlled area from a mica mine not situated in any other controlled area; (viii) “digger” means a person to whom a digger’s permit has been granted under section 11; (ix) “diggers permit” means a permit granted under section 11 authorising a person to whom it is granted to have in his possession and sell mica extracted from a mica mine worked by him on his own behalf; (x) “Government” means the State Government; (xi) “licensee” means a person to whom a miner’s licence or a dealer’s licence has been granted; (xii) “manufactured mica” means any mica processed from either blocks, films or thins, or hard-rounds or wasterounds and includes splittings; (xiii) “mica” means the mineral mica as extracted and includes mica of all other forms and shapes; (xiv) “mica dump” means any collection of waste or scrap mica with or without extraneous matters associated with it; (xv) “mica mine” means any excavation, underground or otherwise, where any operation for the purpose of searching for, or obtaining, mica has been or is being carried on; (xvi) “Mica Officer” means any officer appointed by the Government as Mica Officer for the purposes of this Act and until such time as a Mica Officer is so appointed, the Collector of the district; (xvii) “miner” means any person who has been authorised by the Government under any lease or prospecting licence or under any agreement to excavate mica from a patta land; (xviii) “miner’s licence” means a licence granted under section 5 authorising the person to whom it is granted to have in his possession and sell mica extracted from a mica mine of which he is in possession and which is situated in a land of which he is not the proprietor or from a mica dump of which he is in possession; (xix) “notification” means a notification published in the 3Telangana Gazette; (xx) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (xxi) “proprietor” means the proprietor of the land in which the mica mine of which he is in possession is situated and includes the owner of such land; (xxii) “proprietor’s certificate” means a certificate granted under section 4 authorising the person to whom it is granted to have in his possession and sell mica extracted from a mica mine of which he is in possession and which is situated in a land of which he is the proprietor or from a mica dump of which he is in possession; (xxiii) “registered proprietor” means a person to whom a proprietor’s certificate has been granted under section 4; (xxiv) “splittings” means thin laminations of mica of the micas’ thickness of 1 1/4 mils and includes looses-splittings, book-splittings, dust-loose splittings and pan-packed splittings; (xxv) “State” means the State of 3Telangana. (2) 4The Telangana General Clauses Act, 1891 (Act I of 1891) shall apply for the interpretation of this Act as it applies for the interpretation of 5Telangana Act.