THE COAL MINES (NATIONALISATION) ACT, 1973
[Act, No. 26 Of 1973]
[30th May, 1973]
PREAMBLE
An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the right, title and interest of the owners in respect of the coal mines specified in the schedule with a view to re-organising and reconstructing such coal mines so as to ensure the rational, co-ordinated and scientific development and utilisation of coal resources consistent with the growing requirements of the country, in order that the ownership and control of such resources are vested in the State and thereby so distributed as best to subserve the common good and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:--