Section 5. Payment of amount for acquisition of rights to mines and minerals.

(1) Any alienee having any subsisting sub-soil right in respect of any land immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, be entitled- (a) to receive an amount equivalent to three times the assessment fixed for the land, in which there is a mine or there are minerals, but the mine is not worked during a period of three years immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act ; (b) where any mine was worked at any time during a period of three years immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act, to receive an amount equivalent to twenty times the assessment fixed for the land. (2) Every alienee entitled to the amount under sub-section (1) shall apply in writing to the Competent Authority, on or before the 31st December 1985 or such extended date (if any) as the Competent Authority may fix, for determining the amount payable to him under this section.