Act Number: 17

Act Name: The Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002

Year: 2003

Enactment Date: 2003-01-30

Long Title: An Act to provide for development and regulation of mineral resources in the territorial waters, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone and other maritime zones of India and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Mines

Department:

Section 37: Persons to be public servants.
    The administering authority or any other officer shall be deemed, while acting or purporting to act in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act, to be public servants within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
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