Coal-Mining (Subsidence) Act 1957

1 For the purposes of determining under subsection (4) of section one of this Act the amount of the depreciation in the value of any property affected by subsidence damage which is caused by that damage, the unit of property to be taken into account shall be—

(a) where any property which has suffered subsidence damage constitutes or is comprised in a rating unit, that rating unit; and

(b) in any other case, such unit consisting of or comprising property which has suffered subsidence damage as may be determined by agreement between the Board and all persons entitled to serve a damage notice in respect of that damage or, in default of such agreement, in the manner provided by section thirteen of this Act, to be equitable in all the circumstances of the case:

Provided that a rating unit and property not included in any rating unit may, if it is determined as aforesaid to be equitable so to do, be treated for the purposes aforesaid as a single unit of property, and two or more rating units within the same curtilage and belonging to the same owner, or a rating unit part only of which has suffered subsidence damage, may in either case be treated for the purposes aforesaid either—

(i) as a single unit of property; or

(ii) as consisting of such separate units of property as may be determined as aforesaid to be equitable in all the circumstances of the case,

as may be so determined.