SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Consequential Amendments

The Coal-Mining (Subsidence) Act 1957 (c. 59)

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In section 5 of the Coal-Mining (Subsidence) Act 1957—

a

in subsection (2), for the words from “main river” to “shall make” there shall be substituted the words “ main river within the meaning of Part IV of the Water Resources Act 1991, shall make ”; and

b

in subsection (7), for the words from “main river” to “that Act” there shall be substituted the words “ main river within the meaning of Part IV of the Water Resources Act 1991, or outside any internal drainage district as defined by the Land Drainage Act 1991 ”.

2

This paragraph shall have no effect after the coming into force of the repeal of section 5 of that Act of 1957 by the Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991.