Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946

9Ascertainment of assets, rights and liabilities transferred, and determination of questions as to transfer.

(1)Regulations shall be made for ascertaining, verifying and recording particulars (whether relating to subject matter, value, ownership or other matters), as may appear to the Minister to be requisite for the purposes of this Act, of the assets, property and rights that vest in the Board by virtue of section five or six of this Act, or of regulations made thereunder, and of contractual rights and liabilities so far as transferred to the Board by virtue of section seven of this Act.

(2)All the said assets, property, rights and liabilities are in this Act referred to as the " transferred interests " :

Provided that references to the transferred interests do not include references to assets, property, rights or liabilities of the Coal Commission.

(3)Any question arising in giving effect to the provisions of this Act—

(a)as to what is or is not included in the assets described in the First Schedule to this Act or in any Part thereof or in section six of this Act, or otherwise as to the construction or effect, so far as regards the vesting of assets, property or rights in the Board, of section five or six of this Act or of regulations made thereunder, or of that Schedule, or

(b)as to the existence or extent of any such liability to account or right ,to be indemnified as is mentioned in subsection (5) of section five of this Act, or otherwise as to the construction or effect of that subsection, or

(c)as to whether a contract is such a contract as is mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act, or otherwise as to the construction or effect, so far as regards the transfer to the Board of rights or liabilities under contracts, of that Schedule,

shall be determined by arbitration under this Act.

(4)Regulations may be made—

(a)for securing that, when compensation has been made under this Act on the basis that any assets, property, rights or liabilities have vested in or been transferred to the Board or have vested in them free from any charge or lien, restriction, right or liability, or when particulars of transferred interests have been recorded on that basis or other proceedings for the purposes of dealing with transferred interests for compensation have been taken on that basis and the particulars or other proceedings have become conclusive for those purposes, persons shall be estopped from questioning the vesting in or transfer to the Board of the assets property, rights or liabilities, or the vesting thereof in them free from that charge or lien, restriction, right or liability; and

(b)otherwise for preventing the assertion, as respects matters dealt with for compensation under this Act, of claims of title made on a basis inconsistent with that on which those matters have been dealt with for that purpose.