SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11Compensation in respect of certain orders affecting mineral working

Special consultations

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1

Any reference in this Schedule to a mineral planning authority carrying out special consultations about the making and terms of an order before they make it is a reference to their carrying out consultations—

a

subject to sub-paragraph (2), with any person who has an interest—

i

in the land to which the order will relate; or

ii

in minerals in, on or under that land; and

b

if the land to which the order will relate is in a non-metropolitan county, with the district council in whose area it is situated.

2

The duty to consult imposed by sub-paragraph (1)(a) is only a duty to consult persons whom the mineral planning authority are able to trace by taking reasonable steps to do so.