Channel Tunnel Act 1987

4 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, Parts II and III of Schedule 2 to the M1 Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (exception of minerals from compulsory purchase and regulation of the working of mines or minerals underlying an authorised undertaking) shall have effect in relation to lands within the limits of land to be acquired as if those lands were comprised in a compulsory purchase order providing for the incorporation with that order of those Parts of that Schedule. U.K.

(2) In the application of that Schedule to lands which the Secretary of State is authorised to acquire under section 36 of this Act, the prescribed distance in relation to any seam of minerals lying under land adjoining works forming part of the A20 improvement works shall be such a lateral distance from those works on every side as is equal at every point along those works to one half of the depth of the seam below the natural surface of the ground at that point or forty yards, whichever is the greater.

Marginal Citations

M1 1981 c.67.