Coal-Mining (Subsidence) Act 1957

5 Where the Board are satisfied that the interest in the property in question of any person to whom, apart from the provisions of this paragraph or paragraph 7 of this Schedule, the whole or part of a payment under the said subsection (4) would fall to be paid was, at the time immediately after the damage occurred, subject to a mortgage, the payment or that part thereof shall be paid to the mortgagee, and the mortgagee shall be liable to account therefor as if it had been proceeds of sale of that interest arising under a power of sale exercised by the mortgagee at the said time, except that the mortgagee shall not be entitled to credit for any costs incurred by him in connection with the claiming, ascertainment, apportionment or making of the payment:

Provided that—

(a) if at the time when the payment is made the debt secured by the mortgage (other than any part thereof representing costs for which the mortgagee would not be entitled to credit) has been paid in full, the payment shall be disposed of as if the interest had not been subject to the mortgage ;

(b) if the interest was subject to two or more successive mortgages, this paragraph shall have effect with the substitution for references to the mortgagee of references to the first mortgagee, or, if the preceding sub-paragraph has effect in relation to the first mortgage, to the second mortgagee, and so on ; and

(c) in any case this paragraph shall have effect, as regards any mortgage, subject to any agreement between the mortgagee and the person who apart from that mortgage would have been entitled to receive the payment or part thereof.