Section 6: Power to make rules as respects mineral development.

(1)The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rulesfor the conservation and development of mineral oils.

(2)In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power,such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— [Omitted] (c)the development of any mineral oil resources in any area byprescribing or regulating the use use of any engines, machinery or other equipment; (d)the regulation of drilling, re-drilling, deepening, shutting down, plugging andabandoning of oilwells in an oilfield and for the limitation or prohibition ofsuch operations and for the taking of remedial measures to prevent waste of ordamage to oil; (e)the regulation of the methods of producing oil in any oilfield, and thelimitation or prohibition of such methods; (f)the compulsory notification of all new borings and shaft sinkings, and thepreservation of boring records and specimens of cores of all new bore-holes; (g)the taking of samples from mines and new bore-holes; (h)the regulation of the arrangements for the storage of mineraloils and the stocks thereof that may be kept by any person; (i)the collection of royalties, and the levy and collection of fees or taxes, inrespect of mineral oils mined, quarried, excavated or collected; (j)the submission by the owners or lessees of mines of special or periodicalreturns and reports, and the forms in which and the authorities to whom suchreturns and reports shall be submitted.