Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement

CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement. —(1) This Act may be called the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015. (2) It extends to the whole of India. - (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 21st day of October, 2014. — 2. Declaration as to expendiency of Union action. It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that Union should take action for the development of Schedule I coal mines and extraction of coal on continuous basis for optimum utilisation. 1. Amendment of section IA .—In the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973 (herein referred to as the principal Act), in sub-section (1) of section 1A, after the word and figure "section 3", the word, figure and letter ", section 3A" shall be inserted.