SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 Amendments of the Opencast Coal Act 1958

Protection of land from compulsory purchase

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In section 38 (exclusion from compulsory purchase order of land subject to opencast planning permission)—

a

in paragraph (a), for “the Corporation” there shall be substituted “ a relevant person ”;

b

in paragraph (b), for “the Corporation give” there shall be substituted “ that relevant person gives ”; and

c

at the end there shall be inserted—

“ In this section “relevant person” means any licensed operator within the meaning of the Coal Industry Act 1994 or any person who is certified by the Coal Authority as a person whose application to that Authority for a licence under Part II of that Act is pending. ”