Haryana Minerals (Vesting of Rights) Act, 1973
No: 48 Dated: Nov, 07 1973
THE HARYANA MINERALS (VESTING OF RIGHTS) ACT, 1973
(HARYANA ACT NO. 48 OF 1973)
An Act to vest the mineral rights in the State Government and to provide for payment of amount to the owners of minerals and for other matters connected therewith.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Twenty-fourth Year ofthe Republic of India as follows :—
1. This Act may be called the Haryana Minerals (Vesting of Rights) Act, 1973.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Collector” means the Deputy Commissioner of a district and includes any officer appointed by the State Government to discharge all or any of the functions of a Collector under this Act;
(b) “minerals” mean minerals and minor minerals as defined in clauses (a) and (e) respectively of section 3 of the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957 ;
(c) “land” means land whether assessed to land to land revenue or not and includes river beds and the sites of buildings and other structures ;
(d) “person” shall include a local authority and a company or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not; and
(e) “prescribed”means prescribed by rules made under this Act
3. (1) The State Government may, from time to time, by notification, acquire the right to any minerals in any land and the right to the minerals specified in the notification shall, from the date of its publication, vestin the State Government.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, on the publication of the notification under subsection (1), the right to the minerals in the land specified in the notification shall vest absolutely in the State Government and the State Government shall, subject to the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, have all the powers necessary for the proper enjoyment or disposal of such right.
(3) The right to the minerals in the land includes the right of access to land for the purpose of prospecting and working mines and for the purposes subsidiary thereto including the sinking of pits and shafts, erection of plants and machinery, construction of roads, stacking of minerals and deposit of refuse, quarrying and obtaining building and road materials, using water and taking timber and any other purpose which the State Government may declare to be subsidiary to mining.
(4) If the State Government has assigned to any person its right over any minerals, and if for the proper enjoyment of such right, it is necessary that all or any of the powers specified in subsections (2) and (3) should be exercised, the Collector may, by an order in writing, subject to such conditions and reservations as he may specify,delegate such powers to the person to whom the right has been assigned.