PRELIMINARY
Short title, extent and commencement
1 (1) This Act may be called the Mines and Minerals [Development and Regulation] Act, 1957.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Declaration as to the expediency of Union control
2 It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the regulation of mines and the development of minerals to the extent herein after provided.
