Section 4

(4) The Chief Inspector and every Inspector of Mines appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code, and shall be subordinate to such authority as the Governor General in Council or the Local Government, as the case may be, may direct. (5) No Chief Inspector or Inspector of Mines shall be a partner or have any interest, direct or indirect, in any mine or mining rights in India. (6) When rules are made under this Act, the Inspector of Mines shall give information to owners, agents and managers of mines within the local area, or the group or class of mines, for which he has been appointed as to any rules which concern them respectively, and as to the places where copies of such rules may be obtained. (2) The Local Government may, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, by notification in the local official Gazette, appoint persons, qualified by experience, to be Inspectors of Mines within such local areas or for such groups or classes of mines as it may assign to them respectively. (3) Every Inspector of Mines appointed under sub-section (2) shall, in the performance of his duties, be subordinate to the Chief Inspector of Mines appointed under sub-section (1) in such respects and to such extent as may be prescribed by the Governor General in Council. 4. (1) The Governor General in Council shall, by inspection, notification in the Gazette of India, appoint a duly qualified person to be Chief Inspector of Mines throughout British India.