Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Whenever it appears to the State Government Deviate. that it is necessary in the public interest to provide for the lian of planned construction of buildings and structures, proper area ae sanitation and water supply and prevention of the outbreak :1'4,7 and spread of epidemic diseases, iu any area, not being or meat. not forming part of any mine, within which persons employed in a mine or mines reside, the State Government may publish in the Offirial Gazette a notice of its intention to declare such area to be a mining settlement for the purposes of this Act. (2) A notice under sub-section (1) shall define the limits of the area intended to be declared to be a mining settlement and shall specify a period within which any objection or suggestion in regard to the intended declaration may be submitted by any person to the State Government for its tonsideration. (3) On the expiry of the period for submitting objections or suggestions specified in a notice published under sub- section (1) the State Government may, after considering the objectious or suggestions, if an3, in regard to the ended declara ion .uhtnitted to it within such period, by notification,— (a) withdraw the notice, or (h) declare that the area, the limits whereof have hem defined in the notice, or such part thereof as may be specified in the notification, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be a mining settlement. (4) The State Government mar, by like notification issued following mutanrii.e the procedure laid down in the foregoing sub-section, add to or alter the area included in a mining settlement.