Title : Claims to Be Made to the Commissioner
State : Central
Year : 1973
1[(1)] Every person having a claim against the owner of a coal mine shall prefer such claim before the Commissioner within thirty days from the specified date : Provided that if the Commissioner is satisfied that the claimant was prevented by sufficient cause from preferring the claim within the said period of thirty days, he may entertain the claim within a further period of thirty days but not thereafter. 1[(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), claims in relation to a provident fund, pension fund, gratuity or any other fund established for the welfare of the persons employed by the owner of a coal mine or group of coal mines may be filed on behalf of the persons so employed by the Coal Mines Provident Fund Commissioner appointed by the Central Government..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Central Government to Be the Lessee of the State Government
State : Central
Year : 1973
(1) Where the rights of an owner under any mining lease granted, or deemed to have been granted, in relation to a coal mine, by a State Government or any other person, vest in the Central Government under section 3, the Central Government shall, on and from the date of such vesting, be deemed to have become the lessee of the State Government or such other person, as the case may be, in relation to such coal mine1[as if a fresh mining lease] in relation to such coal mine had been granted to the Central Government and the period of such lease shall be1[the maximum period] for which such lease could have been granted by the State Government or such other person under the Mineral Concession Rules, and thereupon all the rights under such mining lease, including surface, underground and other..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of Central Government to Direct Vesting of Rights in a Government Company
State : Central
Year : 1973
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 3 and 4, the Central Government may, if it is satisfied that a Government company is willing to comply, or has complied, with such terms and conditions as that Government may think fit to impose, direct, by an order in writing, that the right, title and interest of an owner in relation to a coal mine referred to in section 3, shall, instead of continuing to vest in the Central Government, vest in the Government company either on the date of publication of the direction or on such earlier or later date (not being a date earlier than the appointed day), as may be specified in the direction. (2) Where the right, title and interest of an owner in relation to a coal mine vest in a Government company under sub-section (1); the Government..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Management, Etc., of Coal Mines
State : Central
Year : 1973
(1) The general superintendence, direction, control and management of the affairs and business of a coal mine, the right, title and interest of an owner in relation to which have vested in the Central Government under section 3, shall,-- (a) in the case of a coal mine in relation to which a direction has been made by the Central Government under sub-section (1) of section 5, vest in the Government company specified in such direction, or (b) in the case of a coal mine in relation to which no such direction has been made by the Central Government, vest in one or more Custodians appointed by the Central Government under sub-section (2), and thereupon the Government company so specified or the Custodian so appointed, as the case may be, shall be entitled to exercise all such powers..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Contracts to Cease to Have Effect Unless Ratified by Government
State : Central
Year : 1973
(1) Every contract entered into by the owner or occupier of any coal mine for any service, sale or supply and in force immediately before the appointed day shall on and from the expiry of one hundred and twenty days from the appointed day, cease to have effect unless such contract is, before the expiry of that period, ratified, in writing, by the Central Government and in ratifying such contract the Central Government may make such alterations or modifications therein as it may think fit : Provided that the Central Government shall not omit to ratify a contract unless it is satisfied that such contract is unduly onerous or has been entered into in bad faith or is detrimental to the interests of the coal mine. (2) The Central Government shall not omit to ratify a contract or make any..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Central Government or Government Company Not to Be Liable for Prior Liabilities
State : Central
Year : 1973
(1) Every liability of the owner, agent, manager or managing contractor of a coal mine, in respect of any period prior to the appointed day, shall be the liability of such owner, agent, manager or managing contractor, as the case may be, and shall be enforceable against him and not against the Central Government or the Government company. (2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that-- (a) save as otherwise provided elsewhere in this Act, no claim for wages, bonus royalty, rate, rent, taxes, provident fund, pension, gratuity or any other dues in relation to a coal mine in respect of any period prior to the appointed day, shall be enforceable against the Central Government or the Government company; (b) no award, decree or order of any court, tribunal or other authority..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Admission or Rejection of Claims
State : Central
Year : 1973
(1) The Commissioner shall fix a certain date on or before which every claimant shall file the proof of his claim or be excluded from the benefit of the disbursement made by the Commissioner. (2) Not less than fourteen days' notice of the date so fixed shall be given by advertisement in one issue of the daily newspaper in the English language and one issue of the daily newspaper in the regional language as the Commissioner may consider suitable, and every such notice shall call upon the claimant to file the proof of his claim with the Commissioner within the time specified in the advertisement. (3) Every claimant who fails to file the proof of his claim within the time specified by the Commissioner shall be excluded from the disbursements made by the Commissioner. (4) The..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Definitions
State : Central
Year : 1973
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "appointed day" means the 1st day of May, 1973; (b) "coal mine" means a mine in which there exists one or more seams of 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) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Payments appointed under section 17; (e) "Custodian" means the Custodian appointed under sub-section (2) of section 11, to take over, or carry on, the management of a coal mine; (f) "Government company" has the meaning assigned to it by section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956; (g) "managing contractor" means the person, or body of persons, who, with the previous consent, in writing, of the State..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Income Derived by the Owners of Coal Mines After the Appointed Day to Be Refunded to the Central Government
State : Central
Year : 1973
(1) Where, in pursuance of any decree, order or injunction of a court or otherwise, the Central Government or the Custodian appointed under the Coal Mines (Taking Over of. Management) Act, 1973, was prevented from taking over the management of any coal mine, the owner of such coal mine shall render, within sixty days from the date on which management of the coal mine is delivered to the Central Government or Government company, as the case may be, accounts in relation to the period commencing on the date of commencement of the said Act and ending on the date of delivery of such management to the Central Government or the Government company, as the case may be, with regard to the-- (a) assets and stores of the coal mine acquired or sold by him during the said period; (b) coal sold or..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Accounts and Audit
State : Central
Year : 1973
The Custodian of every coal mine shall maintain the accounts of such mine in such manner and under such conditions as may be prescribed. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section