(1) This Ordinance may be called the Coking Coal Mines (Emergency Provisions) Ordinance, 1971.
(2) It shall come into force pn the 17th day of October, 1971.
Short title and commencement.
2, In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "appointed day" means the date on which this Ordinance cornea into force;
(b) "coking coal mine" means a coal mine in which there exists one or more seams of coking coal, whether exclusively or in addition to any seam of other coal;
(c) "company" means a company as defined in section 3 of the Companies Act, 1956, and includes a foreign company within the meaning of section 591 of that Act;
(d) "Custodian" means the person appointed under section fl to take over the management of the coking coal mine;
(e) "Government company" has the meaning assigned to it by section 817 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(/) "mine" mean3 any excavation where any operation for the purpose of searching for or obtaining minerals has been or is being carried on and includes—
(1) all borings and bore holes;
(U) all shafts, in or adjacent to and belonging to a mine whether in the course of being sunk or not;
(ill) all levels and inclined planes in the course of being driven;
(iv) all open cast workings;
(u) all conveyors or aerial ropeways provided for the bringing into or removal from a mine pf minerals or other articles or for the removal of refuse therefrom;
(ui) all lands, buildings, works, adits, levels, planes, machinery and equipment, vehicles, railways, tramways and sidings, in or adjacent to and belonging to a mine;
(vii) all workshops belonging to a mine including buildings, machinery, instruments, stores, equipment of such workshops and the lands on which such workshops stand;
(viii) all coal in stock or in transit or under production, other stores and stocks and instruments belonging to a mine;
(ix) all power stations belonging to a mine or operated for supplying electricity for the purpose of working the mine or a number of mines under the same management;
i of 1956.
1 of 1956.
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(x) all land, buildings and equipment adjacent to or belonging to a mine where the washing of coal or manufacture of coke is carried on;
(xi) all other assets, movable or immovable, belonging to a mine, whether within its premises or outside;
(g) "mining company" means a company owning a. coking coal mine, and in relation to a foreign company within the meaning of section 591 of the Companies Act, 1956, the undertaking of that company in India;
(h) "notified order" means an order notified in the Official Gazette;
(i) words and expressions used herein but not denned, and denned in the Mines Act, 1952, or in the Coal Mines (Conservation, Safety and Development) Act, 1952, have the meanings respectively assigned to them in either of thofe Acts.
1 of 1936.
33 of 1952.
13 Of 1952.
I. (1) On and from the appointed day, the management of all coking coal mineg shall vest in the Central Government.
(2) The coking coal mines specified in the Schedule shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Ordinance, to be the coking coal mines the management of which shall vest, under sub-section (1), in the Central Government:
Provided that if, after the appointed day, any other coal mine is found, after an investigation made by the Coal Board, to contain coking coal, that Board shall make a declaration to that effect and on and from the date of such declaration, such mine shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Ordinance,—
(i) to vest in the Central Government; and
(ii) to be included in the Schedule, and thereupon the provisions of this Ordinance shall become applicable thereto subject to the modification that for the words "appointed day", wherever they occur, the words "the date of the declaration made by the Coal Board Under sub-section (2) of section 3" shall be substituted.
MonattintMt of coking Coal mines to rest ill Government on the ftppointed day.