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 24: Service of notices and orders.
    Subject to any rules that may be made under this Act, every notice or order issued or made under this Act shall--
         (a) in the case of a notice or order of a general nature or affecting a number of persons, be notified in the Official Gazette and also published in the locality in such manner as may be prescribed; and
         (b) in the case of a notice or order directed to an individual 1[be served on such individual],--
             (i) wherever it is practicable to do so by delivering or tendering it to that individual; or
             (ii) if it cannot be so delivered or tendered, by affixing it on the door or some other conspicuous part of the residence in which that individual lives, and a written report thereof shall be prepared and witnessed by two persons living in the neighbourhood; or
             (iii) failing service by these means, by post.
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 58 of 1960, s. 3 and the Second Schedule (w.e.f. 26-12-1960).
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