SCHEDULES

Section 2.

SCHEDULE 1E+W+S Supplementary Provisions Relating to Right to Withdraw Support

1(1)Subject to paragraph 3 below, the provisions of this paragraph shall apply in any case where the construction of any buildings or works is to be begun on land to which a notice under section 2 of this Act relates, other than a notice which is deemed to have been published by virtue of subsection (5) of that section.

(2)Before the construction of the buildings or works is begun, the person at whose expense they are to be constructed (in this paragraph referred to as “the building owner”) shall notify the [F1Corporation] of the proposal to construct them, and shall, if so requested by the [F1Corporation] within fourteen days from the receipt by them of the notice, produce for the inspection of a person duly authorised by them in that behalf plans and specifications of the buildings or works showing their design and the proposed materials for and method of construction of their foundations, and shall, if so requested within that period or within seven days after the plans and specifications have been produced in accordance with the preceding provisions of this sub-paragraph, furnish the [F1Corporation] with copies of any such plans or specifications.

(3)At any time within twenty-eight days from the time when any request made by the [F1Corporation] with respect to the production or furnishing of copies of the plans and specifications has been complied with, or within such further period as the building owner may allow, the [F1Corporation] may make such proposals as to the materials for and the method of construction of the foundations as appear to them to be desirable for minimising damage in the event of subsidence and, if they do so, and the foundations are constructed otherwise than in accordance with the [F1Corporation’s] proposals, the obligation to pay compensation or to make good under section 2(4) of this Act shall be limited so as not to extend to any damage that would have been avoided if they had been so constructed.

(4)The [F1Corporation] shall have the right to have the foundations inspected by a person duly authorised by them in that behalf from time to time during their construction as that person may reasonably require, and if it is alleged by the [F1Corporation] that the foundations are being constructed otherwise than in accordance with any plans or specifications produced or furnished to them, or otherwise than in accordance with any such plans or specifications as modified in accordance with proposals made by the [F1Corporation] (as the case may be), the [F1Corporation] shall notify the building owner of the matter alleged to constitute a departure therefrom, and any question arising in relation to any such allegation shall be determined by arbitration.

(5)The [F1Corporation] shall pay all costs reasonably incurred by the building owner in the production or furnishing of copies of plans and specifications pursuant to a request made by the [F1Corporation] under this paragraph, and the amount of any addition to the expense incurred by him in constructing the buildings or works which is attributable to giving effect to the [F1Corporation’s] proposals or to any postponement or interruption of the construction consequent upon an allegation on the part of the [F1Corporation] of a departure from plans and specifications which is determined not to have been well founded, and any question as to the subsistence of a liability of the [F1Corporation] by virtue of this provision, or as to the amount payable by them in respect of any such liability shall be determined by the Lands Tribunal or, if the land concerned is in Scotland, the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.

(6)If the building owner fails to give notice to the [F1Corporation] in accordance with this paragraph of the proposal to construct the building or works or fails to comply with a request made by the [F1Corporation] thereunder, the obligation to pay compensation or to make good under section 2(4) of this Act shall be limited to damage which could not have been avoided by reasonable and proper precautions taken in the design and construction of the foundations to minimise damage in the event of subsidence.

2In any case where—

(a)immediately before the commencement of this Act the Board had a right to withdraw support from any land by virtue of paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the M1Coal Act 1938, including that paragraph as applied by paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2 to the M2Coal Act 1943, and

(b)after the commencement of this Act that land is damaged by the working of coal in exercise of the right to withdraw support conferred on the [F2Corporation] by section 2 of this Act,

any person interested in that land may claim compensation for the damage in accordance with the terms and conditions relating to compensation which were applicable before the commencement of this Act to the right to withdraw support referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above; but no person shall be entitled both to receive compensation for any damage under this paragraph and to receive compensation for that damage, or have that damage made good, under section 2(4) of this Act.

3In any case where—

(a)before the commencement of this Act, public notice was given in relation to any land under sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Coal Act 1938 (in the following provisions of this paragraph referred to as “paragraph 6”), and

(b)at any time between the first publication of that notice and the commencement of this Act, the construction began of any buildings or works on land to which the notice applied, and

(c)immediately before the commencement of this Act, the obligation of the Board under sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 6 in relation to those buildings or works was limited as mentioned in paragraph (b) or paragraph (e) of sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 6 (which contained provisions similar to sub-paragraphs (3) and (6) of paragraph 1 above),

the obligation of the [F3Corporation], in relation to those buildings or works, to pay compensation or make good any damage under section 2(4) of this Act shall be limited as mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) or, as the case may require, sub-paragraph (6) of paragraph 1 above.

4(1)Any question as to the subsistence by virtue of section 2 of this Act or of any of the preceding provisions of this Schedule of an obligation to pay proper compensation for or make good any damage or as to the rights or liabilities of any person in respect of the enforcement of any such obligation and any question as to the amount of any compensation payable under section 2(4) of this Act or paragraph 2 above shall be determined by the Lands Tribunal or, if the land concerned is in Scotland, the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.

5(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, on an application under section 7 of the M3Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966 (imposition of restrictions on the working of minerals where a person having an interest in land is not entitled to support or to sufficient support for buildings or works), the applicant shall not be required to pay or give any compensation or consideration in respect of the imposition of restrictions appearing to the court to be justified by the existence of the right to withdraw support conferred on the [F4Corporation] by section 2 of this Act.

(2)Sub-paragraph (1) above shall not apply in any case falling within subsection (5)(a) of section 2 of this Act and shall not apply in any other case, other than one falling within subsection (5)(b) of that section, unless the application is sent to the Secretary of State before the end of the period of six months beginning with the date of the first publication of a notice under that section relating to the land to which the application relates or, in a case falling within subsection (6) of that section, the first publication of the notice under paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the M4Coal Act 1938 referred to in that subsection.

(3)Notwithstanding anything in section 12 of the M5Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966, restrictions the imposition of which appears to the court to be justified as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above may be imposed under section 7 of that Act on the application of, and so as to vest the right to enforce the restrictions in, any such company, authority or body as is mentioned in section 12; and such restrictions may be so imposed on the application of, and so as to vest the right to enforce the restrictions in, any company or other body or person carrying on an undertaking primarily for the supply of gas, electricity, water or hydraulic power for public purposes or to members of the public.

Section 3.

SCHEDULE 2E+W+S Retained Interests: Notices and Compensation

1The provisions of this Schedule apply where a person (in this Schedule referred to as “the claimant”) gives to the [F5Corporation] notice of a retained interest as mentioned in section 3(3)(b) of this Act (in this Schedule referred to as a “retained interest notice”).

2(1)Together with a retained interest notice given by him to the [F6Corporation] the claimant shall furnish to the [F6Corporation] adequate proof of his title to the interest at the time the notice is given.

(2)Within the period of three months beginning on the date on which the [F6Corporation] receive a retained interest notice or within such longer period as may be agreed between the [F6Corporation] and the claimant the [F6Corporation] shall serve on the claimant either—

(a)a notice in the prescribed form accepting his title to the retained interest and acknowledging the obligation of the [F6Corporation] to pay compensation in respect of it under section 3 of this Act; or

(b)a notice rejecting the claimant’s retained interest notice;

and in this Schedule a notice under paragraph (a) above is referred to as an “acceptance notice” and a notice under paragraph (b) above is referred to as a “rejection notice”.

(3)A rejection notice shall specify the ground or grounds on which the [F6Corporation] reject the claimant’s retained interest notice.

3Subject to paragraph 5 below, as soon as practicable after the [F7Corporation] have served an acceptance notice on a claimant, the [F7Corporation] shall pay to the claimant any reasonable legal expenses incurred by him for the purposes of—

(a)establishing his ownership of the retained interest to which the acceptance notice relates; and

(b)giving the retained interest notice by virtue of which the acceptance notice came to be served.

4Subject to paragraph 5 below, where, after the receipt of a retained interest notice, the [F8Corporation] have served an acceptance notice in respect of the retained interest concerned, the service of that acceptance notice shall be a valid ground for the service of a rejection notice in respect of any other retained interest notice received by the [F8Corporation] after the first-mentioned notice and relating to any of the land in which subsists the retained interest in respect of which the acceptance notice was served.

5(1)A claimant who—

(a)has served a retained interest notice relating to any land (in this paragraph referred to as “the relevant land”); and

(b)is aggrieved by the service on him of a rejection notice relating to his retained interest notice, other than a rejection notice served pursuant to an order under this paragraph,

may, within the period of 3 months beginning on the date of service of the rejection notice make an application to the county court for an order directing the [F9Corporation] to withdraw the rejection notice and to serve an acceptance notice in respect of the retained interest which he claims.

(2)On an application under this paragraph, the court may direct that, in addition to the applicant and the [F9Corporation], any other person who has given a retained interest notice relating to the whole or part of any of the relevant land shall be made a party to the application unless—

(a)the [F9Corporation] have already served a rejection notice in respect of that person’s retained interest notice; and

(b)the time within which he might have made an application under this paragraph in respect of that rejection notice has expired without such an application having been made.

(3)On an application under this paragraph the court shall determine whether—

(a)the applicant, or

(b)any other party to the application who contests the applicant’s claim, or

(c)any other person (whether a party to the application or not) on whom the [F9Corporation] have served an acceptance notice relating to the whole or any part of the relevant land,

was at the time he gave his retained interest notice entitled to a retained interest in the whole or any part of the relevant land and shall order the [F9Corporation] (so far as they have not already done so) to serve an acceptance notice on that person or, if more than one of them were so entitled to a retained interest in the same piece of land, on that one of them whose retained interest notice was given first.

(4)An order under sub-paragraph (3) above may contain such provisions as the court considers appropriate to secure—

(a)that a rejection notice is or has been served on every party to the application (other than the [F9Corporation]) on whom an acceptance notice is not ordered to be or has not been served; and

(b)that, where it appears to the court that an acceptance notice has been served which should not have been served, that notice is cancelled and that the [F9Corporation] bring the cancellation to the notice of the person who, if the notice had not been cancelled, would for the time being have been entitled to receive compensation under section 3(4) of this Act in respect of the interest to which the acceptance notice related.

(5)If, in accordance with sub-paragraph (4) above, the court orders the cancellation of an acceptance notice, it shall be conclusively presumed for the purposes of section 3 of this Act and of the provisions of this Schedule other than this paragraph—

(a)that the person on whom the acceptance notice was served did not have a retained interest in the relevant land at the time he served his retained interest notice; and

(b)that the [F9Corporation] served a rejection notice in respect of that retained interest notice.

(6)Nothing in paragraph 3 above shall affect the power of the court on an application under this paragraph (or in any subsequent proceedings) to make such order as to costs as it thinks fit; and any such order may make such modifications, if any, of the [F9Corporation’s] obligation under paragraph 3 above as appear to the court to be just in the light of the other provisions as to costs contained in the order.

6The person having the right to receive compensation under section 3(4) of this Act in respect of a retained interest to which an acceptance notice relates shall be the person on whom that notice was served, notwithstanding that he may not own the retained interest at the time when the compensation becomes payable and, accordingly, that right shall devolve on his death and may be assigned in like manner as the right of a creditor under an unsecured debt.

7Notwithstanding anything in paragraph 6 above if, at the time at which compensation becomes payable in respect of a retained interest, the [F10Corporation] pay compensation in good faith to the person who produces the acceptance notice relating to that interest, the surrender of that notice to the [F10Corporation] by way of receipt for the compensation shall constitute an adequate discharge to the [F10Corporation] of their liability to pay that compensation, without any further proof that the person producing the acceptance notice is entitled in accordance with paragraph 6 above to receive the compensation.

8If at any time—

(a)after the [F11Corporation] have served an acceptance notice in respect of a retained interest, and

(b)before the date on which compensation becomes payable in respect of that interest,

the [F11Corporation] enter into an agreement in that behalf with the person who for the time being has the right to receive any such compensation, then, on payment to that person of such consideration as may be agreed, the [F11Corporation] shall be relieved of any contingent liability under subsection (4) or subsection (6) of section 3 of this Act in respect of that retained interest; and where any such agreement is entered into, paragraph 7 above shall apply in relation to the payment of the consideration agreed as it applies in relation to a payment of compensation at the time referred to in that paragraph.

9Without prejudice to paragraph 8 above, at any time after the [F12Corporation] have served an acceptance notice in respect of a retained interest, they shall cease to be entitled to acquire by agreement that interest or any other retained interest in coal or a mine of coal comprised in or lying under any of the land in which subsists the retained interest to which the acceptance notice relates.

10(1)The [F13Corporation] shall keep, at such places as may be prescribed, a record of—

(a)all retained interest notices given to the [F13Corporation] and all acceptance notices and rejection notices served by them, and

(b)all sums paid by way of compensation under section 3(4) of this Act,

and that record shall contain a description of the land in which subsists the retained interest (or in the case of a rejection notice, the claimed retained interest) to which each such notice or payment relates sufficient to enable the land to be identified.

(2)The record kept under this paragraph shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable hours, and different places may be prescribed for the keeping of the record relating to retained interests in different areas.

11Section 55 of the M6Coal Act 1938 (service of notices, etc.) shall have effect as if the provisions of this Schedule were included in that Act.

Section 4.

SCHEDULE 3E+W+S Amendments of M7Opencast Coal Act 1958 consequential on Section 4

1E+W+SIn section 4(6) the words “being an opencast site order” shall be omitted.

2E+W+SIn 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”.

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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.E+W+S

(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.E+W+S

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

6E+W+SIn 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”.

7E+W+SIn 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.

8E+W+SIn section 49, for the proviso to subsection (5) there shall be substituted the following proviso:—

9E+W+SIn 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”.

[F1510SIn paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2, for the words “an opencast site order” there shall be substituted the words “a compulsory rights order”.]

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section 7(4).

Schedule 5E+W+S Enactments Repealed