Mineral Workings Act 1951

41Interpretation

(1)In this Act, except where the contrary is provided or the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—

• " the appointed day " means the day appointed by the Minister to be the appointed day for the purposes of the principal Act, that is to say, the first day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-eight;

• " development value " has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of Part VI of the principal Act;

• " full restoring lease " means a mining lease imposing on the lessee an obligation to restore to a condition suitable for the purposes of agriculture all land excavated under the lease in the course of winning and working ironstone by opencast operations and containing no provision for the payment of sums in lieu of compliance with that obligation in respect of any of the land or by way of liquidated damages for failure to comply with it;

• " the fund " means the Ironstone Restoration Fund established under section two of this Act;

• " the ironstone district " has the meaning assigned to it by section one of this Act;

• " levelling ", in relation to worked ironstone land, includes the removal or redistribution of materials comprised therein, whether or not the original contours of the land are preserved, and any operations for consolidating the land after levelling;

• " management ", in relation to land, includes provision, improvement, maintenance and repair of fixed equipment within the meaning of the Agriculture Act, 1947 ;

• " the Minister " means the Minister of Local Government and Planning;

• " operator " has the meaning assigned by section three of this Act;

• " plant " includes machinery;

• " prescribed " means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister;

• " the principal Act " means the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947;

• " royalty " (except in the expression " tonnage royalty ") includes a dead rent and any periodical or other payment for minerals got under a mining lease, and " tonnage royalty " means a royalty calculated by reference to the amount of minerals so got from time to time, or of manufactured articles produced from such minerals, or by any similar method ;

• " ton " means a ton of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds;

• " worked ironstone land " means land which has been excavated in the course of winning and working ironstone by opencast operations, and includes land on which materials extracted in the course of such operations have been deposited;

and (except as aforesaid) expressions denned in the principal Act have the same meanings as in that Act.

(2)References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment including, except where the context otherwise requires, this Act.

(3)In the application of this section to Scotland, for references to the principal Act (except in the definition of that expression) and to Part VI of that Act there shall be substituted references to the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947, and to Part V of that Act.