SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9U.K. Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67)E+W

27(1)In section 17(4) of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (interpretation), paragraph (a) of the definition of “statutory undertakers” (the British Coal Corporation) shall be omitted.E+W

(2)In section 29 of that Act (application for the purposes of the M1Opencast Coal Act 1958)—

(a)in subsection (2)—

(i)in paragraph (b), for “the British Coal Corporation” there shall be substituted “ the Coal Authority ”; and

(ii)in paragraph (c), the words “on the British Coal Corporation” shall be omitted;

and

(b)after subsection (6) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(6A)Part III of this Act shall apply as if section 17 were omitted.”

(3)In paragraph 1(5) of Schedule 2 to that Act (saving for section 17 of the M2Coal Act 1938), for “section 17(1) of the Coal Act 1938” there shall be substituted “ section 10(3) of the Coal Industry Act 1994 ”.