Validation

(1) Notwithstanding anything in any other law for the time being in force or any judgment, decree or order of any court, tribunal or other authority,— (a) every concession holder shall, for the period commencing on and from the date when his mining concession had been declared to be a mining lease and ending with the date of expiry of the period of his lease under the provisions of this Act (hereafter in this section referred to as the said period), be liable to pay the dead rent or, as the case may be, royalty, due in respect of such lease under the provisions of the Mines and Minerals Act and the rules made thereunder, and such amount shall, save as otherwise provided in this section, be recoverable from him;