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Coal mine, The expression 'no person, other than the Central Government or a government company or a corporation owned, managed or control in India, in any form' is semantically sweeping and is wide in meaning so as to spare no class of coal, including even coking coal, because coking coal is a species of coal, coal itself being the genus. A definition of 'coal mine' in the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973. S. 2(b) of the Act defines coal mine to mean 'a mine in which there exists one or more seams of coal'. It is apparent that even a coking coal mine is a coal mine because the definition is broad, Mahindra Nath Shukla v. State of Bihar, (1980) 3 SCR 595: (1980) 3 SCC 353: AIR 1980 SC 1308 (1311). [Coal Mines (Nationalisa-tion Act (26 of 1973) s. 2 (b)]

The (English) Coal Mines Act 1911, (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 50), repealing and reenacting, with alterations, a great part of the existing law, and itself amended by the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 22), contains a set of elaborate enactments for the management, safety, and inspection of coal mines. The employment of boys, girls, and women below ground is prohibited, and their employment above ground carefully regulated. The Act applies to mines of coal, stratified ironstone, shale, and fire-clay. See also the (English) Coal Mines (Weighing of Minerals) Act, 1905 (5 Edw. 7, c. 9), amending certain provisions of the (English) Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887, and see the (English) Check-weighing in Various Industries Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 51).

By s. 1 (1) of the (English) Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 57), as amended by the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1919, s. 1, 'a workman shall not be below ground in a mine for the purpose of his work and of going to and from his work, for more than seven hours during any consecutive twenty-four hours.' The (English) Coal Mines Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 34), provides for the regulation, supply and sale of coal by owners of coal mines, and constitutes a Coal Mines National Industrial Board. The Act contains elaborate provisions for the re-organisation of the coal-mining industry and restricts the supply and sale of coal. And by the (English) Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act, 1912 (2 Geo. 5, c. 2), provision is made for establishing a minimum wage in the case of workmen employed under ground in coal mines; see Lofthouse Colliery v. Ogden, (1913) 3 KB 120; Davies v. Glamorgan Coal Co., (1914) 1 KB 674; Richards v. Wrexham and Acton Collieries, (1914) 2 KB 497. See MINES.