7 Payments to redundant workers. E+W+S

(1 ) A scheme made by the Secretary of State under section 7 of the Act of 1977 (payments to redundant workers) may extend to persons made redundant by or in connection with the closure of coking plants or the reduction in the number of persons employed at such plants; “and accordingly section 7(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) after the words “coal mines” in the first place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or coking plants”; and

(b) for the words “and (b)” there shall be substituted the words—

or

(b) are employed by any person carrying on in Great Britian a business which consists wholly or mainly of the production of coke and are so employed either at a coking plant or at any place of a prescribed class used for providing services or facilities ancillary to the operation of one or more coking plants;

and who in either case. ”

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(3) For subsections (5) and (6) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsection— “ (5) The aggregate amount of the payments made by the Secretary of State under this section during the financial years of the Board ending in March 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984 shall not exceed £220 million. ”

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 7(2) repealed by Coal Industry Act 1983 (c. 60, SIF 86), Sch.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of Ss. 1(1), (2),(3),(4), 7(3), 8, 11(2) and in 7(1) from "and accordingly..." is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.