SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1The Coal Authority

Part IOrganisation and Proceedings

Minutes

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1

Minutes shall be kept of proceedings of the Authority.

2

Minutes of any such proceedings shall be evidence of those proceedings if they are signed by a person purporting to have acted as chairman of the proceedings to which the minutes relate or of any subsequent proceedings in the course of which the minutes were approved as a correct record.

3

Where minutes of any such proceedings have been signed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above, those proceedings shall, unless the contrary is shown, be deemed to have been regularly convened and constituted.