https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189657 A prospecting licence application was not void merely because the accompanying fee was initially deficient, where the application was duly filed, acknowledged and later cured by payment of the deficit. The rules distinguished between filing the application and the fee to accompany it, and contained no provision treating a short fee as making the application invalid. The State's conduct in entertaining the application and allowing correction showed that it treated the application as pending and valid, so it could not later rely on the technical defect to defeat it. The earlier application therefore retained priority over the later applicant, and the revisional order recognising that priority was upheld. en-us Fri, 21 Jan 1977 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:52:16 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189657 A prospecting licence application was not void merely because the accompanying fee was initially deficient, where the application was duly filed, acknowledged and later cured by payment of the deficit. The rules distinguished between filing the application and the fee to accompany it, and contained no provision treating a short fee as making the application invalid. The State's conduct in entertaining the application and allowing correction showed that it treated the application as pending and valid, so it could not later rely on the technical defect to defeat it. The earlier application therefore retained priority over the later applicant, and the revisional order recognising that priority was upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 21 Jan 1977 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=189657