Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946

Assets to be transferred without option.

Unworked coal and mines of coal (and certain associated minerals).

1 (1) Interests in unworked coal, and in mines of coal, of colliery concerns and of the Coal Commission, and. subject to the provisions of section thirty-six of this Act, any other interest being a retained interest within the meaning of the Coal Act, 1938, by virtue of subsections (1) to (5) of section five of that Act.

(2) Interests of the Coal Commission in minerals other than coal, and interests of colliery concerns and of subsidiaries thereof in unworked minerals other than coal being minerals which can only be economically worked in association with the working of coal or which can only be economically brought to the surface by the use of a mine of coal an interest in which vests in the Board.

Colleries, and colliery coke ovens and manufactured fuel plants.

2 Interests of colliery concerns and of class A subsidiaries thereof in fixed and movable property used for colliery activities, coal carbonisation and coal products distillation activities allied with colliery activities, or manufactured fuel activities (in this Act referred to as " colliery production activities ") :

Provided that where a colliery concern or a subsidiary thereof, or a concern of which a colliery concern is a subsidiary, operates iron and steel works at the primary vesting date—

(a) interests of the colliery concern or of a subsidiary thereof in fixed and movable property used for coal carbonisation and coal products distillation activities allied with colliery activities shall be excepted from this paragraph so as to fall instead within paragraph 21 of this Schedule ; and

(b) the activities for which that property is used shall not be treated as colliery production activities by virtue of this paragraph, but without prejudice to the provisions of the said paragraph 21.

Colliery electricity plants.

3 Interests of colliery concerns and of class A subsidiaries thereof in fixed and movable property used for or in connection with the following (in this Act referred to as " colliery electricity activities ") namely, generating, transforming or converting electricity consumed exclusively or mainly in the course of colliery production, transport, sales or welfare activities or in the course of any combination of those activities, and interests of such concerns and subsidiaries in fixed and movable property used for or in connection with transmitting or distributing electricity generated, transformed or converted by means of property interests in which vest in the Board by virtue of the preceding provisions of this paragraph,

Colliery transport loading and storage works.

4 Interests of colliery concerns and of class A subsidiaries thereof (other than any such concerns or subsidiaries whose business includes the operation of iron and steel works) in railways, aerial ropeways, canal wharves, and other fixed and movable property (not being things mentioned in paragraph 12 of this Schedule) used exclusively or mainly for any one or more of the following (in this Act referred to as " colliery transport activities "), namely, the inland transport, loading, discharging, handling, or storing, of products of colliery production activities or articles required for colliery production or electricity activities.

Colliery merchanting property.

5 Interests of colliery concerns and of class A subsidiaries thereof in fixed and movable property used exclusively or mainly for the purposes of the sale or supply by colliery concerns or by class A subsidiaries thereof of products of colliery production activities (in this Act referred to as " colliery sales activities"), or for the purposes of the sale or supply of such products by bodies administering schemes which, immediately before the primary vesting date, have effect under Part I of the Coal Mines Act, 1930.

Colliery institutes, etc.

6 (1) Interests of colliery concerns and of class A subsidiaries thereof in fixed and movable property used as or in connection with an institute, a hospital, baths, a canteen, or otherwise, for providing for the benefit of staff employed in colliery production, electricity, transport, or sales activities (in this Act referred to as " colliery welfare activities ").

(2) Interests of colliery concerns and of class A subsidiaries thereof in fixed and movable property used at a coal mine within the meaning of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, in rescue work.

Maintenance, operational, office and general equipment.

7 Interests of colliery concerns and of class A subsidiaries thereof in fixed and movable property used exclusively or mainly for any one or more of the following, namely, repairing and maintaining things falling within any of the preceding paragraphs or this paragraph, preparing and adapting such things for use, providing means of access, lighting, heating and ventilation for the purposes of any of the activities therein mentioned, and any other activities incidental to the carrying on of any of the activities therein mentioned, including the organisation and supervision thereof, and securing safety therein.

Stocks of colliery products.

8 Interests of colliery concerns and of class A. subsidiaries thereof in stocks of products of colliery production activities.

Certain curtilages and development sites.

9 In cases in which an interest in fixed property vests in the Board, whether without option or by virtue of the exercise of an option, and the owner of that interest has also an interest in land used exclusively or mainly for coal industry or transferred allied activities for which that property is used, or an interest in land owned by him exclusively for the purpose of having land available for use for such activities or an extension thereof, the interest of that owner in that land.