Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Coal Industry Act 1994 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 31st October 1994.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” means the Coal Industry Act 1994; and

“the 1946 Act” means the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946(2).

Provisions coming into force on 31st October 1994

2.  The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order (which relate to the matters specified in column 2 thereof) shall come into force on 31st October 1994.

Provisions coming into force on 1st November 1994

3.  The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order (which relate to the matters specified in column 2 thereof) shall come into force on 1st November 1994.

Transitional provision

4.—(1) This article shall have effect until the coming into force of the repeal by the Act(3) of section 56 of the 1946 Act.

(2) Section 56 of the 1946 Act shall have effect with the following modifications—

(a)the insertion after the words “this Act” in the second place in which they occur in subsection (1) and in the first place in which they occur in subsection (2) of the words “or the Coal Industry Act 1994”; and

(b)the substitution for the words “this Act” in the third place in which they occur in subsection (1) and in the second place in which they occur in subsection (2) of the words “those Acts”.

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1PROVISIONS COMING INTO FORCE ON 31ST OCTOBER 1994

APPENDIX TO SCHEDULE 1REPEALS TAKING EFFECT ON 31ST OCTOBER 1994

SCHEDULE 2PROVISIONS COMING INTO FORCE ON 1ST NOVEMBER 1994

APPENDIX TO SCHEDULE 2REPEALS TAKING EFFECT ON 1ST NOVEMBER 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force all the provisions of the Coal Industry Act 1994 not brought into force directly by the Act, by the first commencement order (S.I. 1994/2189) or by virtue of the making of the Coal Industry (Restructuring Date) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2553), except for—

• section 22(2) —repeal of the Miners' Welfare Act 1952;

• section 24 — abolition of the Domestic Coal Consumers' Council;

• the provisions of the Act specified in section 68(3); and

• the repeal of certain of the statutory provisions specified in Part III of Schedule 11.

All the provisions brought into force by the Order come into force on 31st October 1994 except for the provisions specified in Schedule 2 (concerning Town and Country Planning legislation) which come into force on 1st November 1994.

Article 4 of the Order makes transitional amendments to section 56 of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 (restriction on disclosure of information) to provide for the transfer to the Coal Authority of information to which that section applies pending the bringing into force of its repeal.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

By a commencement order made before the date of this Order the following provisions of the Coal Industry Act 1994 have been brought into force as indicated below:

In addition, the provisions of the Act specified in section 68(2) thereof will come into force on 31st October 1994 by virtue of the making of the Coal Industry (Restructuring Date) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2553).