Opencast Coal Act 1958

9 (1) The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect where land comprised in a holding to which Part I of the said Act of 1927 applies is comprised in a compulsory rights order (whether any other land is comprised in the holding, or comprised in the order, or not), and—

(a) the tenancy under which that holding was held immediately before the operative date continues until after the end of the period of occupation, and

(b) before the operative date improvements (in this paragraph referred to as " the former improvements ") had been carried out on the land in question, and

(c) at the end of the period of occupation the circumstances are such that compensation would be payable in respect of the former improvements under section thirty of this Act, but for the fact that the benefit of those improvements has been replaced, on the restoration of the land, by works (in this paragraph referred to as " the new improvements ") of comparable benefit to the land.

(2) In the circumstances specified in the preceding sub-paragraph, the provisions of Part I of the said Act of 1927 as to compensation for improvements shall apply to the new improvements as if they had been carried out by the person who carried out the former improvements.