(1) The State Government may, from time to time, by motification, acquire -the right to the minerals in any land and notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, from the d ate of the publication of the notification the right to the minerals in the land specified in the notification shall vest absolutely in the State Government and the State Government shall, su bject to the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Developmen t) Act, 1957 (Central Act No. 67 of 1957). have all the powers necessary fo r the proper enjoyment or disposal of such rights. } }
(2) Ifthe State Government has assigned t o any person its right to the minerals in any land, and if for the proper enjoyment of such right, it is necessary that all or any of the powers specified i n sub-section (/) should be exercised, the Collector may, by an order, in writing, sub ject to such conditions and reservations as he may specify, delegate such powers to the person to whom the right has been assigned.
Explanation.—In this section and section 4, the expression “right to the minerals in any land” includes the right of access to the land for the purpose of prospecting and working mines and for the purposes subsidiary thereto including the sinking - of pits and shafts, erection of plants and machinery, construction of roads, stacking of minerals and deposit of refuse, quarrying and obtaining building and road materia ls, using water and taking timber and any other purpose w hich the State Government may declare to be subsidiary to mining.