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Minerals Act Section 130 — Orders to correct, temporary stop and revocation of licences
Minerals Act (พระราชบัญญัติแร่) — Section 130.
Plain-English Summary
Where a licence holder breaches the Act, a regulation or a licence condition, or operates in a way that may cause nuisance, damage or danger to persons, animals, plants, property or the environment, an official may order the breach stopped or corrected within a set period and the licensing authority may have officials bind and seal machinery during that time (Section 129). If the holder wilfully does not comply without good reason, the Director-General or issuing authority may order all or part of the operation to stop temporarily (Section 130 paragraph 1). If the holder still does not correct it in time, or the operation may cause severe, irreparable poisoning of the environment endangering life, health, property or the environment, the authority may revoke the licence by written notice (Section 130 paragraph 3). Other revocation grounds include unpaid debts 90 days after a written demand (Section 128) and failure to post or restore rehabilitation security (Section 70).
Official Text
Official Thai text at the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State. Translation summary only.
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Minerals Act
พระราชบัญญัติแร่ · B.E. 2560 (2017)
The Minerals Act B.E. 2560 (2017) repeals the earlier Minerals Act B.E. 2510 (1967), its amendments and the mineral royalty Acts, bringing mineral licensing and royalty into one statute (Section 3). The Minister of Natural Resources and Environment and the Minister of Industry each administer the parts of the Act within their own remit (Section 5); the Director-General of the Department of Primary Industries and Mines issues the larger mining leases and the exclusive and special prospecting, dressing, metallurgy and mineral-trade licences. The Act sets up a National Mineral Management Policy Committee and a five-yearly master plan that fixes where mining may and may not take place (Sections 8-19), ties mining to environmental impact assessment under the environmental quality law, adds community hearings and, for underground mining, stakeholder consultation (Sections 56, 82-88), caps royalty at 30 per cent of the market price (Section 132), and sets criminal penalties and civil liability (Sections 139-142 and 153-183).
The summary above is a plain-English educational paraphrase of Section 130 of the Minerals Act. It is not an authoritative translation. For the binding Thai text, consult the Royal Gazette or the Office of the Council of State. Educational use only — not a substitute for advice from a Thai-qualified lawyer.
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