Opencast Coal Act 1958

12 (1) Where compensation is payable by virtue of section seventeen of this Act in respect of a holding which consists of or includes—

(a) land which, immediately before the operative date of the compulsory rights order in question, was used for a purpose for which land would not normally be let from year to year, or

(b) land in respect of which, immediately before the operative date, there was in force permission granted under Part III of the Act of 1947 for the land to be used for such a purpose,

subsections (2) to (4) of section eighteen of this Act shall not apply, and for the purposes of that section, and for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section nineteen of this Act, and (where applicable) for the purposes of subsection (3) of the said section nineteen, the annual value of the land for any year shall be determined in accordance with regulations made by the Minister under this paragraph.

(2) Any regulations made under this paragraph may include provisions specifying purposes which, in relation to the provisions of this paragraph, are to be treated as purposes for which land would not normally be let from year to year.

(3) In this paragraph any reference to any of the provisions of sections seventeen to nineteen of this Act includes a reference to that provision as applied by section twenty-nine of this Act.