The Mines and Minerals Development (Amendment) Act (2012)

Mines and Minerals Development  
(Amendment)  
  
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               [No. 12 of 2012 227  
  
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GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA  
  
ACT  
No. 12 of 2012  
  
Date of Assent: 19th December, 2012  
  
An Act to amend the Mines and Minerals Development Act,  
2008. [21st December, 2012  
  
ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia. 1. This Act may be cited as the Mines and Minerals  
Development (Amendment) Act, 2012, and shall be read as one  
with the Mines and Minerals Development Act, 2008, in this Act  
referred to as the principal Act. 2. The principal Act is amended by the insertion, immediately  
after section one hundred and four, of the following new section:  
  
104A. (1) A person who intends to transfer, assign,  
          encumber or otherwise deal with a mining right conferred  
          under sections twenty-one, thirty-two, forty-three, fifty-one,  
          sixty-one or seventy-one shall apply to the Zambia Revenue  
          Authority for a tax clearance certificate.

forty-three, fifty-one,  
          sixty-one or seventy-one shall apply to the Zambia Revenue  
          Authority for a tax clearance certificate.

(2) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the Minister,  
          Director of Mines or Director of Geological Survey, as  
          applicable, shall, upon the production of a valid tax clearance  
          certificate relating to the transfer, assignment, encumbrance  
          or other dealing in a mining right by the mining right holder,  
          approve the application for the transfer, assignment or  
          encumbrance of, or other dealing in, the mining right. ___________________________________________________________  
  
Enactment  
  
Short title  
  
Act No. 7 of  
2008  
  
Insertion of  
new section  
104A  
  
Tax clearance  
for transfer  
of mining  
right  
  
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Single Copies of this Act can be obtained from the Government Printer,  
P.O. Box 30136, 10101 Lusaka. Price K1000 each.