Section 15
Costs.
The Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act, 1957
About this Act
An Act to establish in the economic interest of India greater public control over the coal mining industry and its development by providing for the acquisition by the State of unworked land containing or likely to contain coal deposits or of rights in or over such land, for the extinguishment or modification of such rights accruing by virtue of any agreement, lease, licence or otherwise, and for matters connected therewith.
Every award made by the Tribunal shall also state the amount of costs incurred in the
proceedings before it and by what persons and in what proportions they are to be paid.