Opencast Coal Act 1958

25E+W+SWhere the whole or part of a holding to which section seventeen of this Act applies consists of land occupied under a letting or licence approved [F1under section 2 of the Act of 1986 or]of the Act of 1948, and—

(a)by the agreement under which the land was let or the licence granted a right to use the land for specified purposes was reserved to the person letting the land or granting the licence, as the case may be;

(b)the exercise of that right is prevented or injuriously affected by reason of the compulsory rights order or of anything done in the exercise of rights conferred by the order; and

(c)that right does not constitute an easement or similar right,

subsection (2) of section thirty-one of this Act shall have effect in relation to that right as if it were an easement to which that section applies.