Cooking Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act,1972
13. Income derived by the owners of Cooking coal mines and coke oven plants after the appointed day to be refunded to the Central Government.
(1) Where, in pursuance of any decree, order or injunction made by a Court, the Central Government or the Custodian appointed under the Cooking Coal Mines (Emergency Provisions) Act,1971. was prevented from taking over the management of any Cooking coal mine or coke oven plant, the owner of the owner of such Cooking coal mine or coke oven plant shall render, within sixty days. from the date of assent, to the Central Government or the Government company, as the case may be, accounts, in relation to the period commencing on the appointed day and ending on the date of assent, with regard to the-
(a) assets or stores of the Cooking coal mine or coke oven plant acquired or sold by him during the period;
(b) coal or coke sold or dispatched during the said period:
(c) income derived by him from the Cooking coal mine or coke oven plant during the said period.
(2) If, on examination of the accounts referred to in sub-section (1), any income is found to have been deprived by the owner from the Cooking coal mine or coke oven plant during the period referred to in that sub-section, such income shall be set-off against the amount specified in the First Schedule or the Second Schedule, as the case may be, against the name of such owner, and the balance of such amount shall be paid to him.
(3) If no account is rendered by the owner of a Cooking coal mine or coke oven plant within the period referred to in sub-section (1) or if the Central Government or the Government company. has any reason to believe that the account rendered by such owner is incorrect or false in material particulars, the Central Government or the Government company may refer the matter to the Commissioner and thereupon the Commissioner shall determine the income derived by the owner from the Cooking coal mine or coke oven plant during the period referred to in sub-section (1), and set-off such income against the amount specified in the First Schedule or the Second Schedule, as the case may be, against the name of such owner and pay the balance to such owner.
