Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023

No: 17 Dated: Aug, 10 2023

Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023

An Act to amend the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023.

    (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. In the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 4,-

    (i) in clause (b), after the words, brackets and figures "Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957", the words "and the rules made thereunder" shall be inserted;