Mineral Development Act (Northern Ireland) 1969
Vesting of mines and minerals in the Ministry of Commerce,...
Vesting of mines and minerals in the Ministry of Commerce, with certain exceptions
1Vesting of mines and minerals in the Ministry.
2Exception of scheduled substances and mines thereof.
3Exception of mines and minerals already vested in the Ministry.
4Exception of certain other Crown mines and minerals.
5Exception of mines and minerals the property of religious denominations and educational institutions.
6Exception of merged mines and minerals.
7Exception of minerals held in connection with mines in work or being developed, and of mines of such minerals.
Provisions for securing the disclosure of interests in certain excepted mines and minerals
8Registration of mineral rights where mines are in work or being developed.
9Consequences of non-registration under section 8.
10Safeguards for persons working or developing mines.
Prospecting
11Power of Ministry to prospect or grant prospecting licences.
12Provisions with respect to prospecting licences.
13Working of mines and minerals by licensees and duty to give information respecting minerals.
14Undertaking by the Ministry to grant mining leases, etc.
Working or disposal of mines and minerals vested in the Ministry
15Power of Ministry to work mines and minerals.
16Power to sell estate in mines and minerals.
17Mining leases.
18Mining licences.
19Mining permissions.
20Conditions of disposal.
21Disposal for nominal or no consideration in certain cases.
22Rights of entry and user of land containing mines and minerals vested in the Ministry.
Ancillary mining facilities
23Acquisition of land and ancillary rights.
24Provisions supplemental to section 23.
25Exercise by Ministry of acquired mining facilities.
26Mining facilities permits.
27Conditions of mining facilities permits.
28Surrender of acquired mining facilities.
Compensation for mines and minerals
29Compensation for mines and minerals vested in the Ministry under section 1.
30Persons entitled to compensation under section 29.
31Claims for compensation under section 29.
32Determination of attribution of net profit
33Determination of title to compensation under section 29.
34Determination of certain other questions in relation to compensation under section 29.
Compensation for loss of dead rent
35Compensation for loss of dead rent.
36Claims for compensation under section 35 and determination of disputes.
Rights of former vendors
37Share of persons entitled under s.13(3) of Irish Land Act 1903, where minerals disposed of by Ministry.
Damage caused by mining operations
38Compensation for damage caused in working minerals, etc.
39Power of Lands Tribunal to prohibit, restrict or terminate certain operations.
40Restrictions on working minerals required for support.
General provisions as to compensation, etc.
41Making of claims to the Ministry.
42Satisfaction of claims.
43Disposal of certain dormant or unclaimed moneys.
44Provisions with respect to land subject to Land Purchase Annuity.
General provisions as to Lands Tribunal
45Power of Lands Tribunal to state consultative case for Court of Appeal.
46Enforcement of awards of the Lands Tribunal.
Miscellaneous
47Entry on land.
48Offences.
49Regulations.
50Annual statement and register of notices.
51Account of receipts and expenditure under Act.
52Financial provisions.
53Power of educational institutions to facilitate the working of mines and minerals.
54Repayment of grants, etc., in certain cases.
55Meaning of “stone, gravel, sand or clay” in s.13(3) of the Irish Land Act 1903.
56Definitions of “minerals” , “mine” and “ancillary rights” .
57General interpretation provisions.
58Savings.
S.59 rep. by 1970 c.18 (NI)
60Application of Planning Orders to certain mining development on Crown property.
61Act to bind Crown.
S.62(1), with Schedule 3, effects amendments; subs.(2), with Schedule 4,...
63Short title and commencement.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1SUBSTANCES EXCEPTED BY SECTION 2
1Conglomerate; grit (or gritstone), sandstone, greywacke, siltstone, mudstone, shale (excluding alum shale and oil shale),...
2Any superficial deposit of gravel or sand, whether of fluvioglacial, river or marine origin.
3All of the following of Quaternary Age, namely, boulder clay, laminated clay, alluvial clay and...
4All agricultural soil.
SCHEDULE 2MINING FACILITIES ORDERS
Making of orders (1) (1) The Ministry, where it proposes to acquire any land or...
Making of orders
1(1) The Ministry, where it proposes to acquire any land or any ancillary rights by...
2(1) On the expiration of one month after the last publication of the notice mentioned...
Validity and operation of orders
3(1) The following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect with respect to the validity...
4(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), a mining facilities order shall operate, without further assurance “to...
5A mining facilities order, or the title created by such an order (if it relates...
6Where a mining facilities order relates to any land forming part of a holding which...
7Subject to the provisions of section 47, on and after the date of vesting the...
8(1) Section 92 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 shall not have effect in...
Reference of disputed cases to the Lands Tribunal
9(1) As soon as a mining facilities order has become operative, any question of disputed...
10When any question of disputed compensation arises, the Ministry shall as soon as practicable thereafter...
Special powers of the Lands Tribunal
11(1) The Lands Tribunal shall have the same power of apportioning any rent-service, rent-charge, chief...
Satisfaction of claims
12(1) The Ministry, on paying to any person any compensation (whether the amount thereof has...
13(1) Where the compensation payable (whether the amount thereof has been settled by agreement or...
14Any person claiming to be entitled to any money paid to another person pursuant to...
15(1) Where the amount of compensation which is payable in respect of any land to...
16(1) The Ministry shall pay interest upon the compensation money from the date of the...
17In this Schedule “instalment” includes any rent or other periodical payment.
Schedule 3—Amendments
Schedule 4—Repeals

Mineral Development Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 F1

1969 Chapter 35

An Act to facilitate the discovery and working of minerals, with certain exceptions, and for connected purposes.

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