Sierra Leone Mining Code 2009

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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Sierra Leone
Year
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type	Case
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?, 1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?, 1.2.5b: Do rules specify the royalty rate(s) applying to extractive companies?, 1.2.5e: For countries using production sharing agreements, do rules specify the company and government production shares?, 2.2c: Do rules specify that subnational governments of producing areas should receive a higher share of extractive resource revenues than those of non-producing areas?, 2.2.2b: If there is a formula governing the transfer of extractive resource revenue between the central government and subnational governments, does this formula specify the amount of revenue received by each subnational government?, 2.2.5a: Were transfers of extractive resource revenues to subnational governments externally audited over the most recently completed audit timeframe?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law and Practice (Both)
Publisher	Government Printing Dept Sierra Leone Gazette No 3
Author	Victor Kamara
Source or API link	http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex4.detail?p_lang=en&p_isn=87733&p_country=SLE&p_count=166
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute