Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946

4 (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph, as from the primary vesting date a contract to which the body administering a selling scheme, other than a central selling scheme, is a party shall have effect in favour of and against the Board as if the Board had been a party to the contract instead of that body.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph, as from the primary vesting date—

(a) a contract to which the body administering a central selling scheme is a party ; and

(b) a contract for the rendering, for the purposes of colliery sales activities, of personal services to a selling agent appointed under a group selling scheme ;

shall have effect in favour of and against the Board, so far as the performance thereof is due on or after the primary vesting date, as if the Board had been a party thereto instead of the body or agent aforesaid.

(3) The provisions of subsections (2) to (5) of section seven of this Act and of subsection (3) of section nine thereof shall apply to the contracts mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) and sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph respectively as they apply to the contracts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act with the substitution—

(a) for the reference in subsection (2) of the said section seven to the purposes mentioned in paragraph 1 of that Schedule, of a reference to the purposes of the selling scheme in question ; and

(b) for references generally in those provisions to that Schedule, of references to this paragraph.