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District Mining Officer and ors. Vs. Tata Iron and Steel Co. and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Subject : Constitution

Acts : Mineral (Validation) Act, 1992 - Sections 2 and 2(2); Constitution of India - Articles 14, 32, 139, 254(1), 265, 300A and 372; Mines and Minerals (Regulations and Development) Act, 1957 - Sections 2 and 9; Tamil Nadu Panchayat Act, 1958 - Sections 115; Minerals (Validation) Ordinance, 1992; Validation Act, 1969 - Sections 2 and 2(1) and (2); Cess Act, 1880; General Clauses Act, 1897 - Sections 6; Goverment of India Act, 1935 - Sections 72; India and Burma (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1940; Coal Production Fund Ordinance, 1944 - Sections 3; City of Bombay (Building Works Restriction) Act, 1944

Reported in : JT2001(6)SC183; 2001(4)SCALE680; (2001)7SCC358

case. In the impugned judgment the High Court has held that:(a) the Parliament has not enacted the entire Cess Act of 1880 but has merely re-enacted the provisions contained therein which related to cess and other taxes on … placed reliance on the Statutory interpretation by Francis Bennion, First Edition, paragraph 178 as well as Craies on Statute Law at pages 407-409. With reference … has not borne in mind the very Statement of Objects and Reasons as well as the language of Section 2 of the Validation Act, and the absence of a provision in the Validation Act, corresponding to the