(1)This Act may be cited as the Coal Industry Act 1973.
(2)The Coal Industry Acts 1946 to 1971 and this Act may be cited together as the Coal Industry Acts 1946 to 1973.
(3)The following provisions of this Act, that is to say, section 2(1) and so much of Schedule 2 as repeals section 2(1) of the Act of 1965 or as relates to the Act of 1967 or the Act of 1971, shall come into operation on 1st April 1973.
(4)This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.