Section 8: Application for licence and notice thereof.

(1)
An applicant for a licence shall deliver to the Minister an application for the same stating the terminal points and giving a description of the pipeline and accompanied by a plan of the proposed route of the pipeline sufficient to identify the land affected thereby and the position of any pumping stations, tanks or other ancillary installations.
(2) The Minister shall upon receipt of such application appoint a date not less than six weeks ahead for the hearing of objections, if any, and shall nominate the person or persons by whom and the place or places at which any such objections shall be heard, and shall thereupon cause a notification of such date and other particulars and of the places at which objections shall be lodged to be made in the Federal Gazette and of each State concerned.
(3) Before or upon application being made in accordance with sub-section(1) of this section notice of the application shall be given by the applicant in the following manner-
(a) by publication thereof in the State Gazette of each State through which the route of the projected pipeline passes;
(b) by publication thereof in such newspapers circulating in the areas through which the route of the projected pipeline passes as the Minister may require;
(c) by posting or delivering the same to the following persons entitled to be carrying on operations in the area which would be affected by the grant of the licence-
(i) holders of exclusive prospecting licences, mining rights, oil exploration licences, and oil prospecting licenses,
(ii) lessees of mining leases, temporary mining leases or oil mining leases;
(d) by publication in areas likely to be affected by the licence in such other manner as the Minister may direct,
and by delivering to administrative officers having responsibilities in such area or to such other officers as the Minister may specify such numbers of copies of such notice as the Minister may require for distribution to the occupiers or owners of land in the areas so affected who might not otherwise become aware of such notice.
(4) Such notice shall contain a description of the proposed pipeline and its route and the proposed ancillary installations and shall set out a list of places and times at which copies of a plan sufficient to identify the land affected thereby may be inspected, and each copy of such notice shall require that objections (if any) shall be made at least seven days before the date to be appointed by the Minister for the hearing of objections and delivered at the places to be appointed by him for such lodgment.