Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Act, 1996 (No. 41 of 1996).

Section 9 provides that the Minister may, for the purpose of encouraging and protecting large-scale investments in the mining sector in Zambia, on behalf of the Republic enter into an agreement relating to the grant of a large-scale mining licence. An agreement referred to in subsection (1) shall be known as a development agreement, and may contain specified provisions binding on the Republic. Matters concerned may include, inter alia, the privatization of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited and any matters specified in the First Schedule in which the Minister responsible for finance may, after consultation with the Minister responsible for such portfolio, make such stability commitments in relation to the said matters as the Minister may consider necessary. One of the matters mentioned in the First Schedule is environmental protection and pollution control.