Act Number: 53

Act Name: The Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Act, 1948

Year: 1948

Enactment Date: 1948-09-08

Long Title: An Act to provide for the regulation of oilfields and for the development of mineral oil resources.

Ministry: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Department:

Section 9: Penalties.
    (1) Any rule made under any of the provisions of this Act may provide that any contravention thereof shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
     (2) Whoever, after having been convicted of any offence referred to in sub-section (1), continues to commit such offence shall be punishable for each day after the date of the first conviction during which he continues so to offend, with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
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