Act Info:
Preamble1 - MINES AND MINERALS (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ACT, 1957
Chapter I Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Declaration as to the expediency of Union control
Section3 - Definitions
Chapter II Section4 - Prospecting or mining operations to be under licence or lease
Section4A - Termination of prospecting licences or mining leases
Section5 - Restrictions on the grant of prospecting licences or mining leases
Section6 - Maximum area for which a prospecting licence or mining lease may be granted
Section7 - Periods for which prospecting licences may be granted or renewed
Section8 - Periods for which mining leases may be granted or renewed
Section9 - Royalties in respect of mining leases
Section9A - Dead rent to be paid by the lessee
Chapter III Section10 - Application for prospecting licences or mining leases
Section11 - Preferential right of certain persons
Section12 - Registers of prospecting licences and mining leases
Chapter IV Section13 - Power of Central Government to make rules in respect of minerals
Section14 - Power of Central Government to make rules for the grant of prospecting licences or mining leases in respect of territorial waters or continental shelf of India
Section14 - Sections 5 to 13 not to apply to minor minerals
Section15 - Power of State Governments to make rules in respect of minor minerals
Section16 - Power to modify mining leases granted before 25th October, 1949
Chapter V Section17 - Special powers of Central Government to undertake prospecting or mining operations in certain lands
Section17A - Reservation of area for purposes of conservation
Chapter VI Section18 - Mineral development
Section18A - Power to authorise Geological Survey of India, etc., to make investigation
Chapter VII Section19 - Prospecting licences and mining leases to be void if in contravention of Act
Section20 - Act and rules to apply to all renewals of prospecting licences and mining leases
Section21 - Penalties
Section22 - Cognizance of offences
Section23 - Offences by companies
Section23A - Compounding of offences
Section23B - Power to search
Section23C - Power of State Government to make rules for preventing illegal mining, transportation and storage of minerals
Section24 - Power of entry and inspection
Section24A - Rights and liabilities of a holder of prospecting licence or mining lease
Section25 - Recovery of certain sums as arrears of land revenue
Section26 - Delegation of powers
Section27 - Protection of action taken in good faith
Section28 - Rules and notifications to be laid before Parliament and certain rules to be approved by Parliament
Section29 - Existing rules to continue
Section30 - Power of revision of Central Government
Section30A - Special provisions relating to mining leases for coal granted before 25th October, 1949
Section31 - Relaxation of rules in special cases
Section32 - Amendments to Act 53 of 1948
Section33 - Validation of certain acts and indemnity
ScheduleI - FIRST SCHEUDLE
ScheduleII - SECOND SCHEDULE
ScheduleIII - THIRD SCHEDULE