Section 2: Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"coal" includes bituminous coal, sub-bituminous coal, cannel coal, anthracite, lignite and brown coal;
"colliery activities" includes searching or boring for, winning, working or getting coal, bringing it to the surface, treating it and rendering it saleable, and includes depositing spoil arising from working coal or from any other of the activities mentioned in these definitions;
"Corporation" means the Nigerian Coal Corporation established under the provisions of this Act;
"financial year" in relation to the Corporation means a period of twelve months beginning on the 1st January, except that the period between the establishment of the Corporation and the 1st January, 1951, shall be deemed to be a financial year;
"functions" includes powers and duties;
"mine of coal" means a space occupied by unworked coal or excavations underground for the purposes of colliery activities, and includes a shaft or adit made for those purposes, a coal quarry and opencast workings of coal;
"Minister" means the member of the National Council of Ministers for the time being charged with responsibility for matters relating to mines and minerals;
"to mine", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means intentionally to win minerals and includes any operations necessary for the purpose;
"to prospect", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means to search for minerals and includes such working as is reasonably necessary to enable the prospector to test the mineral-bearing qualities of the land, but does not include the removal of overburden from ground which can reasonably be sampled by pits not exceeding seven feet square or by bore-holes;
"welfare activities" means activities undertaken by the Corporation in fulfilment of the policy which the Corporation is charged to carry out by paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section 4 of this Act.