Act Number: 20

Act Name: The Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act, 1957

Year: 1957

Enactment Date: 1957-06-08

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Coal

Department:

Section 5: Effect of notification on prospecting licences and mining leases.
    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.
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).
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