(1) The Bengal Mining Settlements Act, 1912, is hereby repealed :
Provided that— any mining settlement declared, Mines Board of Health appointed, limits defined, appointment, rule, by-law or order made, notification or notice issued, expenses charged or assessed, or contract entered into under the said Act, shall, so far as may be, be deemed to have been respectively declared, established, defined, made, issued, charged or assessed, or entered into under this Act ;
,ii) any legal proceeding commenced under the said Act may be continued as if the said Act had not been repealed;
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Repeal of Ben. Act II of 1912.
2 The Wert Bengal Mining Settlements (Health and Welfare) Act, 1964.
[West Ben. Act (Chapter L—Preliminary.—Sectiona.)
(iii) the State Government may, by notification, abolish any such Mines. Board of Health or reconstitute it in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(2) All properties, movable or immovable and all interests of whatever nature or kind therein, held by or on behalf of any Mines Board of Health appointed under the Bengal Mining Settlements Act, 1912, shall continue to be vested in such Board, being a Board deemed under clause
(i) of the proviso to sub-section (1) to have been established under this Act, and, where a notification abolishing or reconstituting such Board is issued under clause (iii) of the proviso to sub-section (1), shall stand transferred on and from such date and to such other Mines Board of Health, whether established under section 6 or deemed under clause (t) of the proviso to sub-section (1) to have been established under this Act, as may be specified in the notification.
3. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant iu tions. the subject or context,—
(a) "Board" means a Mines Board of Health established or deemed to have been established under this Act and when used in relation to a mining settlement means the Board for such mining settlement;
(b) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(o) "owner", when used in relation to a mine, means any person who is in occupation of the mine or any part thereof and carries on the business, or is a contractor for the working, 'of such mine or part and, except for the purposes of section 27, includes the Government :
Provided that where any person is deemed, under the proviso to section 76 of the Mines Act, 1952, to be the owner of a mine for the purposes of that Act, such person shall be deemed to be the owner of the mine also for the purposes of this Act;
(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act;
(e) the expressions "employed" and "mine" have the same meaning as. in the Mines Act, 1952.
Ben. Lot II of 1912.
35 of 1952.
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