Coal Industry Act 1987

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The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with the amendments there specified which are consequential on subsection (1) above.

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The Secretary of State may make grants to the Corporation out of money provided by Parliament towards any eligible expenditure of the Corporation or any of their wholly-owned subsidiaries which is expenditure which relates to costs falling to be charged to any consolidated profit and loss account of the Corporation and any of their subsidiaries prepared in accordance with a direction given under section 8(1) of the Coal Industry Act 1971 in respect of a relevant financial year of the Corporation.

Not more than one financial year may be specified in any order made under subsection (4)(a) above.

The aggregate of the grants made under subsection (1) above shall not exceed F3£2,500 million, but the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, by order increase or further increase that amount to an amount not exceeding F3£3,000 million.

The Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, give directions to the Corporation as to the manner in which the amount of any expenditure is to be determined for the purposes of this section.

References in this section and in Schedule 2 to this Act to expenditure include references to costs incurred by providing goods or services.

The power to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument and no such order shall be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the House of Commons.

Section 6 of the M1Coal Industry Act 1977 (grants in respect of pit closures) shall cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the payment of any grant under that section in respect of relevant expenditure actually incurred during any period specified in subsection (3) of that section.

Grants under subsection (2) above towards expenditure in any financial year shall not exceed one-half of the expenditure in that year which would apart from this subsection be eligible for such grants.

In this section “relevant expenditure” has the same meaning as in the said section 6.

In this section “an employee organisation” means any organisation appearing to the F40Commission to represent in respect of their employment a substantial number of persons whose employers are licensed operators within the meaning of the Coal Industry Act 1994, or who are all employed by the same licensed operator.

References in this section to the trustees of a trust include references to the members of any body a function of which is to hold property subject to the trust or to perform any administrative functions in relation to the trust and, in relation to the members of such a body, references in this section to the appointment of trustees shall be construed as references to any corresponding procedure under the provisions relating to the constitution of the body.

Where any functions relating to a trust are exercisable by more than one body of trustees, for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above the F41Commission may disregard or have regard only to the members of one of those bodies.

The F37Commission shall not exercise F38its powers under this section in any case which F39it considers, by reason of any special question of law or of fact which it may involve, more fit to be adjudicated on by the court (within the meaning of F49the Charities Act 2011).

Sections 70(1), 71, F5173(1), (2) and (5), 74, 88 and 89 of the Charities Act 2011 apply in relation to the powers of the Commission and the making of schemes under this section as they apply in relation to its powers and the making of schemes under that Act and sections 337 and 339 of that Act apply to orders and decisions under this section as they apply to orders and decisions under that Act.

The Commission must not proceed under section 73 of that Act (as applied by subsection (8)) without the same application and notice to the trustees of the trust in question, as would be required if the Commission was proceeding under subsection (1); but on any application made with a view to a scheme under subsection (1) the Commission may proceed under that subsection or under section 73 of that Act (as so applied) as appears to it appropriate.

Chapter 2 of Part 17 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Charities Act 2011 (appeals and applications to Tribunal) apply in relation to an order made under this section as they apply in relation to an order made under section 69(1) of that Act.

Nothing in this section shall affect any other powers exercisable by the F47Commission or the High Court in relation to any trust to which this section applies.

If, after receiving representations from the Corporation, the Secretary of State considers that a scheme established under section 37 of the M4Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 (provisions as to superannuation etc. rights) does not provide for participation in any function conferred under the scheme by any organisation which appears to him to represent a substantial proportion of the members of the scheme, the Secretary of State may by order make such amendments of the scheme as he considers appropriate to secure such participation by that organisation.

Before making an order amending a scheme under this section the Secretary of State shall consult the Corporation and any organisation which appears to him to represent a substantial proportion of the members of the scheme (other than any organisation representing members who are also represented by another organisation which he has consulted).

References in this section to the members of a scheme do not include members who have ceased to be liable to pay contributions under the scheme.

References in this section to participation by an organisation include participation by any person as a nominee or on behalf of the organisation.

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The fact that a provision of a scheme has been added or amended by an order under this section shall not preclude its subsequent alteration or deletion in accordance with the scheme.

The power to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument and an instrument containing such an order shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

If any person is aggrieved by an order made under section 6 or 7 above and desires to question its validity on the ground that the order is not within the powers of the Secretary of State or that any requirements under that section have not been complied with in relation to it he may, within 42 days beginning with the date on which a copy of the statutory instrument containing the order is laid before Parliament (or if such copies are laid on different days, with the later of the two days), make an application to the court under this section.

If on an application under this section the court is satisfied that the order was not within those powers or that the interests of the applicant have been substantially prejudiced by a failure to comply with those requirements in relation to the order the court may quash the order.

Except as provided by this section, the validity of such an order shall not be questioned in any legal proceedings whatever.

This Act may be cited as the Coal Industry Act 1987.

Sections 6 to 8 of this Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.

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