Coal Industry Act 1975

Section 4.

SCHEDULE 3Amendments of [1958 c. 69.] Opencast Coal Act 1958 consequential on Section 4

1In section 4(6) the words " being an opencast site order " shall be omitted.

2In section 5 for the words " an opencast! site order in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words " a compulsory rights order ".

3Section 6 shall cease to have effect.

4(1)In section: 7, in subsection (1) the words " or in accordance with subsection (3) of section six of this Act" shall be omitted.

(2)In subsection (3) of that section the words " In relation to an opencast site order ' shall be omitted.

(3)In subsection (5) of that section the words from " or of " to the end of the subsection shall be omitted.

(4)In subsection (6) of that section the words " or section six of this Act" shall be omitted.

(5)In subsection (7) of that section the words " or in subsection (4) of section six of this Act" shall be omitted.

5(1)In section 8, in subsection (1) the words " (whether it is an opencast site order or a storage site order) " shall be omitted.

(2)In subsection (3)(b) of that section the words œ or subsection (2) of section six of this Act, as the case may be " shall be omitted.

6In section 9 for the words " an opencast site order ", in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the* words " a compulsory rights order

7In section 36, in subsection (2) for the words " an opencast site order ", in the first place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words " any compulsory rights order " and the words " opencast site where they occur in the proviso to the subsection, shall be omitted.

8In, section 49, for the proviso to subsection (5) there shall be substituted the following proviso:—

“Provided that where the period specified in the order is less than twenty years, this subsection shall not prevent the variation of the order by the extension of that period, if the period as extended does not exceed twenty years”.

9In section 51(1) the definitions of "opencast site order" and " storage site order " shall be omitted and in each of the definitions of " period of occupation " and " persons directly concerned " for the words following " assigned to it" there shall be substituted the words " by section 5 of this Act ".

10In paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2, for the words " an opencast site order " there shall be substituted the words " a compulsory rights order ".

11In Schedule 10, paragraph 12 shall be omitted.