Coal Industry Act 1980

7 Payments to redundant workers

(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 Britain 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) The qualifying period for payments under any such scheme shall be extended to the end of March 1984, and accordingly, for the words in section 7(1) "the final date as defined in subsection (3) below" there shall be substituted the words " 1st April 1984 ", and section 7(3) shall be omitted.

(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.”