Coal Industry Act 1994 (c. 21)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 E+W+S Amendments of the Opencast Coal Act 1958

Protection of land from compulsory purchase E+W+S

28 E+W+S 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. ”