Section 18A
Payment to State Governments in lieu of royalty.
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.
1[18A. Payment to State Governments in lieu of royalty.--Notwithstanding anything contained in
this Act, where any land or any rights in or over land belonging to a State Government (other than the
rights under a mining lease granted or deemed to have been granted by the State Government to any
person) vest in the Central Government under section 10 or in a Government Company under section 11,
the Central Government or the Company, as the case may be, may pay to the State Government such sum
of money as would have been payable as royalty by a lessee had such land or rights been under a mining
lease granted by the State Government.]
Notes
1. Ins. by s. 7, ibid. (w.e.f. 11-12-1971).