Botswana Mines and Minerals Act, 1999

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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Botswana
Year	1999
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, State-owned enterprises, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?, 1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?, 1.1.10a: From 2015 onwards, has the government publicly disclosed signed licences/contracts?, 1.1c: What licensing process does the licensing authority follow?, 1.1.4a: From 2015 onwards, did the licensing authority publicly disclose minimum pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in licensing processes?, 1.1.5d: Are there rules that companies can follow to appeal licensing decisions?, 1.1.2d: Does the publicly available registry of licenses/contracts give the names of companies that hold an interest in a given area/block?, 1.2.5c: Do rules specify the level of state equity (or options for state equity such as carried interest) in extractive companies ?, 1.2.6a: Is the government required to make all payments to the national treasury or deposit them into a national resource account, aside from amounts legally retained by SOEs?, 1.3.5b: Are there rules governing rehabilitation and closure of extractive projects?, 1.4.1a: Are there rules governing fiscal transfers between the government and the SOE?, 1.4.3a: Is the SOE required to publicly disclose annual reports containing information on its finances and operations?, 1.4.3b: Do rules require a periodic audit of the SOE's financial statements by an external body?, 1.4.7c: Are there rules that govern how the proceeds from the sale of the SOE's production should be transferred to the government?, 1.4.3c: Is the SOE required to submit annual reports to the legislature on its commercial, non-commercial (i.e. regulatory) and non-operational activities (i.e. activities not related to resource extraction)?, 2.2.1a: Do rules specify which subnational agencies receive the extractive resource revenues transferred from the central government?
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Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law and Practice (Both)
Publisher	Government of Botswana
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Source or API link	http://rgi.nrgi-assessment.org/api/public/documents/BWA-2016-MI
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute