Section 3
Appointment of competent authority.
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.
The Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint any person to be the competent authority for the purposes of this Act; and
different persons may be appointed as competent authorities for different provisions of this Act and for
different areas.