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Enacted 1957

Mines & Minerals Development Act, 1957

In force 58 sections Bihar

This is a second copy of a Central Act. India Code files it on Bihar's shelf as well as under Parliament, and the text is the same enactment. Read it at The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, which is the record this site keeps current.

Act 67 of 1957

Preamble

Government of India Ministry of Mines MINES AND MINERALS (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ACT, 1957 (No. 67 of 1957) (As amended up to 10th May, 2012) Issued by CONTROLLER - GENERAL, INDIAN BUREAU OF MINES, NAGPUR August, 2012 LIST OF AMENDING ACTS 1. The Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Amendment Act, 1958 (15 of 1958) 2. The Repealing and Amending Act, 1960 (58 of 1960) 3. The Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Amendment Act, 1972 (56 of 1972) 4. The Repealing and Amending Act, 1978 (38 of 1978) 5. The Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Amendment Act, 1986 (37 of 1986) 6. The Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Amendment Act, 1994 (25 of 1994) 7. The Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Amendment Act, 1999 (38 of 1999) 8. The Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Amendment Act, 2010 (34 of 2010) ******* (ii) THE MINES AND MINERALS (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ACT, 1957 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PRELIMINARY SECTIONS PAGE 1. Short title, extent and commencement diaCode 2. Declaration as to the expediency of Union control 1 3. Definitions 1 GENERAL RESTRICTIONS ON UNDERTAKING PROSPECTING AND MINING OPERATIONS 4. Prospecting or mining operations to be under licence or lease 2 4A. Termination of prospecting licences or mining leases 3 5. Restrictions on the grant of prospecting licences or mining leases 5 6. Maximum area for which a prospecting licence or mining lease may be granted 6 7. Periods for which prospecting licences may be granted or renewed 7 8. Periods for which mining leases may be granted or renewed 7 9. Royalties in respect of mining leases 8 9A. Dead rent to be paid by the lessee 8 (iii) PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING PROSPECTING LICENCES OR MINING LEASES IN RESPECT OF LAND IN WHICH THE MINERALS VEST IN THE GOVERNMENT 10. Application for prospecting licences or mining leases 9 11. Preferential right of certain persons 9 11A. Granting of reconnaissance permit, prospecting licence or mining lease in respect of coal or lignite. 12. Registers of reconnaissance permits, prospecting licences and mining leases 12 RULES FOR REGULATING THE GRANT OF RECONNAISSANCE PERMITS, PROSPECTING LICENCES AND MINING LEASES 13. Power of Central Government to make rules in respect of minerals 13 13A. Power of Central Government to make rules for the grant of prospecting licences 15 or mining leases in respect of territorial waters or continental shelf of India. 14. Sections 5 to 13 not to apply to minor minerals 16 15. Power of State Governments to make rules in respect of minor minerals 16 16. Power to modify mining leases granted before 25th October, 1949 18 SPECIAL POWERS OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO UNDERTAKE PROSPECTING OR MINING OPERATIONS IN CERTAIN CASES 17. Special powers of Central Government to undertake prospecting or mining 19 operations in certain lands 17A. Reservation of area for purposes of conservation 20 DEVELOPMENT OF MINERALS 18. Mineral Development 18A. Power to authorise Geological Survey of India, etc. to make investigation 22 MISCELLANEOUS 19. Prospecting licences and mining leases to be void if in contravention of Act 24 20. Act and rules to apply to all renewals of prospecting licences and mining leases 24 (iv) 21. Penalties 24 22. Cognizance of offences 25 23. Offences by companies 25 23A. Compounding of offences 26 23B. Power to search 26 23C. Power of State Government to make rules for preventing illegal mining, transportation and storage of minerals 24. Power of entry and inspection 28 Rights and names of order of prospecting . GOOD or mining lease 28 25. Recovery of certain sums as arrears of land revenue 29 26. Delegation of powers 30 27. Protection of action taken in good faith 30 28. Rules and notifications to be laid before Parliament and certain rules to be approved by Parliament 29. Existing rules to continue 31 30. Power of revision of Central Government 31 30A.Special provisions relating to mining leases for coal granted before 25th October,

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Provenance. Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/6fc77600-dae4-499b-9f73-0c0e4dc1074c.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/402780ea-c943-4b9c-9221-9d090538a0ab/content).

Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament and of the State legislatures as published on India Code, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. Every one of the 58 sections of this Act has its own page. This page is not a substitute for legal advice.