OFFSHORE AREAS MINERAL (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ACT 2002 THE OFFSHORE AREAS MINERAL (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ACT, 2002 ACT NO. 17 OF 2003[30th January, 2003.]AN ACT to provide for development and regulation of mineral resources in the territorial waters, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone and other maritime zones of India and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement. 1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. Declaration as to expediency of Union control.-It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the regulation of mines and the devel...