Section 5
Effect of notification on prospecting licences and mining leases.
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.
On the issue of a notification
under sub-section (1) of section 4 in respect of any land--
(a) any prospecting licence 1[which authorises any person] to prospect for coal or any other mineral in the land shall cease to have effect; and
(b) any mining lease 2*** shall, in so far as it authorises the lessee or any person claiming through him to undertake any operation in the land, cease to have effect for so long as the notification under that sub-section is in force.
(a) any prospecting licence 1[which authorises any person] to prospect for coal or any other mineral in the land shall cease to have effect; and
(b) any mining lease 2*** shall, in so far as it authorises the lessee or any person claiming through him to undertake any operation in the land, cease to have effect for so long as the notification under that sub-section is in force.
Notes
1. Subs. by Act 51 of 1957, s. 3, for "granted to any person under the Mineral Concession Rules which authorises
him" (w.e.f. 12-6-1957).
2 The words "granted to any person under the Mineral Concession Rules" omitted by s. 3, ibid. (w.e.f. 12-6-1957).
2 The words "granted to any person under the Mineral Concession Rules" omitted by s. 3, ibid. (w.e.f. 12-6-1957).