Mines and Minerals Development (Amendment) Act, 2012 (No. 12 of 2012)

Mines and Minerals Development (Amendment) [No. 12 of 2012 227 GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA ACT No. 12 of 2012 Date of Assent: I 9th December, 2012 An Act to amend the Mines and Minerals Development Act, 2008. [21st December, 2012 ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia. Enactment 1. This Act may be cited as the Mines and Minerals Short title Development (Amendment) Act, 2012, and shall be read as one with the Mines and Minerals Development Act, 2008, in this Act Act No. 7of referred to as the principal Act. 2008 2. The principal Act is amended by the insertion, immediately Insertion of after section one hundred and four, of the following new section: new section 104A 104A. (1) A person who intends to transfer, assign, Tax clearance encumber or otherwise deal with a mining right conferred for transfer under sections twenty-one, thirty-two,forty-three,fifty-one, of mining right 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. Single Copies of this Act can be obtained from the Government Printer, PO. Box 30136, 10101 Lusaka. Price K/000 each.