Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946

PART IIThe South Yorkshire Mines Drainage Committee.

Vesting of Interests and Dissolution of Committee.

9On the primary vesting date—

(a)there shall vest in the Board, by virtue of this sub-paragraph and without further assurance, the interests of the South Yorkshire Mines Drainage Committee (in this Part of this Schedule referred to as " the Committee ") in property of whatsoever kind ; and

(b)the Committee shall be dissolved and the South Yorkshire Mines Drainage Scheme, 1929 (in this Part of this Schedule referred to as " the scheme ") shall cease to have effect.

10Compensation shall not be made in respect of the transfer to the Board of interests of the Committee.

Rights and Liabilities.

11(1)As from the primary vesting date, a contract to which the Committee is a party shall have effect in favour of and against me Board as if the Board had been a party thereto instead of the Committee.

(2)Any liability for damages or the payment of compensation which, if the scheme had not ceased to have effect, might have been enforced after the primary vesting date against the Committee in respect of a tort or of an act which, apart from the scheme, would have been tortious, shall be enforceable against the Board as if the tort or act in question had been that of the Board.

Transitional Provisions.

12(1)All such proceedings with respect to the assessment of mines for the purposes of the rate required to be levied in respect of the year within which the primary vesting date falls, the service upon the owners of mines of notices of, and the making by them of objections to, such assessments, the consideration of such objections, hearings in connection therewith and arbitrations consequential thereon, as might have been had, taken or continued under the scheme after that date if this Act had not been passed, may be had, taken or continued in all respects as if this Act had not been passed and as if persons who, immediately before that date were owners of mines had continued to be such owners, but with the substitution of the Board for the Committee.

(2)All such proceedings for the recovery by the Committee, otherwise than by distress, of a sum due from any person in respect of an amount assessed in respect of a mine for the purposes of a rate required to be levied in respect of the year within which the primary vesting date falls or any preceding year as might have been had, taken or continued under the scheme after that date if this Act had not been passed, may be had, taken or continued in all respects as if this Act had not been passed, but with the substitution of the Board for the Committee.