Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) “appointed day” in relation to any provision of this Act, means such day as the State Government, by notification published in the Official Gazette, appoint in relation to that provision, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any provision of this Act to the appointed day shall be construed as a reference to the commencement of that provision; (b) “drilling operations” means any operations, whether by drilling or otherwise, for the purpose of locating or proving oil-field or other sources of mineral deposits; (c) “Government company” means any company in which not less then fifty-one percent of the paid-up share capital is held by the Central Government or any State Government or Governments or partly by the Central Government and partly by one or more State Governments and includes a company which is a subsidiary of a Government company as so defined; (d) “land and its resources” means advantages derived from the surface of the land and all that is below it and which is valuable or is a source of money or income, and includes:- (i) minerals, (ii) mineral oils, petroleum and petroleum products (including liquid petroleum gas) and (iii) every other product of mines including forest and forest products. (e) “minerals” means all substances which can be obtained from the earth by mining, digging, drilling, dredging hydraulicing, quarrying or by any other operation, and includes mineral oils (which in turn include crude oil, natural gas and petroleum); (f) “mining lease” means a lease granted for the purpose of undertaking mining operations, and includes a sub-lease granted for all or any of such purposes; (g) “mining operations” means any operation undertaken for the purpose of winning any mineral. (h) “minor minerals” means building stones, gravel, ordinary clay, ordinary sand other than sand used for any of the prescribed purposes, and includes any other mineral which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be a minor mineral, (i) “motor conveyance” means any vehicle, vessel or aircraft for the conveyance of human beings, other animals or goods by land, water or air in which crude or mineral oils or natural gas or any other source of energy is used to generate the motive power; (j) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (k) “oil field” means any area where any operation for the purpose of obtaining natural gas or petroleum, or both, crude oil, partially refined oil and any of the products of petroleum in liquid form or solid State is be, or is to being carried on; (l) “Petroleum” means any liquid hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons, and any inflammable mixture liquid, viscous or solid, containing any hydrocarbon; (m) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (n) “Prospecting licence” means a licence granted under this Act for carrying out prospecting operations in the State for the purpose of locating or proving die existence of any mineral, oil-field or other source of minerals; (o) “Prospecting operations” means any operations (including drilling) undertaken for the Purpose of exploring, locating or proving the existence of any mineral deposit or oil-field or other source of minerals; (p) “State” means the State of Nagaland. (q) “to transport minerals” means to move minerals from one place in the State to another place, whether, within or outside the State, by any means whatsoever, and includes movement from one place in the State to another place in the state across a territory which is not a part of the State; (r) “to store minerals” means to keep any mineral in one or more places in the State but does not include any detention happening during the ordinary course of transport; (s) “to import minerals” means to bring any mineral into the State by land, air, pipeline or otherwise; (t) the expressions “mine”, “minerals” and “owner” have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the Mines Act, 1952.