Section 51: Qualification for Quarry Lease.

A qualified applicant for a Quarry Lease is-
(a) any individual citizen of Nigeria with legal capacity and who has not been convicted of a criminal offence ; or
(b) a Mining Co-operative ;or
(c) a body corporate duly registered under the Companies and Allied Matters Act ; or
(d) any person extracting construction materials for the construction of roads, railway lines, dams and other engineering works or structures of public interest.