"(3) Where the amount specified in the fifth column of the First Schedule is relatable to a group of coking coal mines, the Commissioner shall apportion such amount among the owners of such g-oup, and in making such apportionment, the Commissioner shall have regard to the highest annual production in the coking coal mine during the three years immediately preceding the appointed day.".
10. (1) In section 3 of the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the Coal Mines Act),— , (a) sub-section (2) shall be omitted and shall be deemed to have beett omitted with effect from the 29th day of April, 1976;
(b) in sub-section (4), the words, brackets and figures ", notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), or in the proviso to sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Coal Mines (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1973," shall be omitted;
(c) after sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: -* "(5) If, after the appointed day, the Central Government is satisfied, whether from any information received by it cr otherwise, that there has been any error, omission or misdescription in relation to the particulars of coal mine included in the Schedule 6t the name and address of the owner of any such coal mine 4 64 of 1971.
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it may, by notification, correct such error, omission or misdescriptlon and on the issue of such notification, the relevant entries lit the Schedule shaU be, and shall be deemed to hdve always been, corrected accordingly;
Provided that no such correction in relation to the ownership of a coal mine shall be made where such ownership is in dispute.".
(2) The omission of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Coal Minea Act by clause (a) of sub-section (I) of this section shall not affect the previous operation of the provisions of the said sub-section (2) or anything duly done of suffered thereunder.
11. In section 4 of the Coal Mines Act,—
(a) in sub-section (2),— (0 for the words "as if a mining lease", the words "as if a fresh mining lease" shall be substituted;
(«) for the words "the entire period", the words "the maximum period" shall be substituted;
(b) in sub-section (2), the words", on the same terms and conditions on which the lease Was held, immediately before the appointed day," shall be omitted.
12. Section 8 of the Coal Mines Act shall be renumbered as sub-section
(1) thereof, and after sub-section (1) as so renumbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: — "(2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the amount specified in the fifth column of the Schedule against any coal mine or group of coal mines specified in the second column of the Schedule and required to be given by the Central Government to its owner under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to include, and deemed always to have included, any amount required to be paid to such owner in respect of the stock of coal or other assets referred to in Clause (h) of section 2 on the date immediately before the appointed day and no further amount shall be payable to the owner in respect of such coal or other assets.".