The Ministry of Coal Notification G.S.R. 349 (E) aims to revise the rates of royalty in respect of coal including lignite.

The Law on Electricity (2017 Ed.) establishes specific standards in the administration, transmission, distribution and trade of electricity in line with the national social and economic growth of the Lao people. In particular, it sets out the principles to use the natural resource potentials in an economical and sustainable manner.

The Ministry of Coal Notification No. G.S.R. 46(E) of 2012 aims to amend the Second Schedule of of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (No. 67 of 1957).

The Colliery Control Rules aim to regulate collieries and those responsible for their operation.

Rules and Regulations regarding the Auction by Competitive Bidding of Coal mines process.

The Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973 to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the right, title and interest of the owners in respect of the coal mines specified in the schedule with a view of reorganising and reconstructing such coal mines so as to ensure the rational, co-ordinated and scientific development and utilisation of coal resources consistent with the growing requirements of the country, in order that the ownership and control of such resources are vested in the State and thereby so distributed as best to subserve the common good, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. 2. In the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973, in section 3, in subsection (3), in clause (a), for item (iii), the following shall be subsitituted namely: (iii) a company engaged in- (1) the production of iron and steel, (2) generation of power (3) washing of coal obtained from a mine or (4) such other end use as the Central Government may, by notification, specify.

The Ministry of Coal Notification No. G.S.R. 522(E) of 2007 amends some of the provisions of the Second Schedule of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 regarding the overview of royalties on Coal.

The Central Government hereby specifies production of syn-gas obtained through coal gasification (underground and surface) and coal liquefication to be end uses for the purposes of the said Act.

Amendments to the Second Schedule of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, outlining; the types of coal that can be produced in territories and in all states and union.