Coal Industry Act 1994
Coal Industry Act 1994 (1994 c. 21)
- Coal Industry Act 1994 (1994 c. 21)
- Part I Re-organisation of Coal Industry
- The Coal Authority
- 1 Establishment of the Coal Authority.
- 2 Duties of the Authority with respect to licensing.
- 3 Duties of the Authority with respect to property.
- 4 Duty of the Authority with respect to safety.
- 4A Power of the Authority with respect to coal mine water discharge
- 4B Coal mine water discharge: powers of entry
- 4C Coal mine water discharge: compulsory purchase of land
- 4CA Further powers relating to subsidence and water discharge
- 4D Power of the Authority with respect to coal mine water discharge: Scotland
- 4F Coal mine discharge: compulsory acquisition of land in Scotland
- 4G Further powers relating to subsidence and water discharge: Scotland
- 5 General powers of the Authority.
- 6 Directions to the Authority by the Secretary of State.
- The Corporation’s exploitation rights
- 7 Exploitation rights: general.
- 8 Exploitation rights: territorial waters and continental shelf.
- 9 Exploitation rights: oil and gas.
- 10 Protection for certain interests in coal and coal mines.
- Restructuring of the Corporation’s undertaking
- 11 Restructuring of the Corporation’s functions.
- 12 Restructuring schemes in relation to property etc.
- 13 Agreements with respect to restructuring schemes.
- 14 Duty to assist in preparation of restructuring schemes.
- The Corporation’s successors
- 15 Financial structure of successor companies.
- 16 Target investment limit for Government holding in successor companies.
- Financial arrangements in connection with restructuring
- 17 Grant-making powers.
- 18 Residual payments grant.
- 19 Concessionary coal.
- 20 Extinguishment of loans to the Corporation.
- 21 Taxation effects of restructuring.
- 22 Pensions and miners’ welfare organisations.
- Reduction in membership and dissolution of the Corporation
- 23 Reduction in membership and dissolution of the Corporation.
- Abolition of the Domestic Coal Consumers’ Council
- 24 Abolition of the Domestic Coal Consumers’ Council.
- Part II Licensing of Coal-mining Operations
- Coal-mining operations to be licensed
- 25 Coal-mining operations to be licensed.
- Licences under Part II
- 26 Grant of licences.
- 26A Licences for coal-mining operations in Wales: approval by Welsh Ministers
- 27 Authorisation contained in licence.
- 28 Conditions of licence: general.
- 29 Conditions for the provision of security.
- 30 Publication of licensing arrangements.
- Enforcement
- 31 Enforcement orders.
- 32 Procedural requirements for enforcement orders.
- 33 Validity and effect of enforcement orders.
- 34 Power to require information for the purposes of enforcement.
- Supplemental
- 35 Register of licences and orders.
- 36 Insolvency of licensed operators etc.
- Part III Rights and Obligations in connection with Coal Mining
- Areas of responsibility
- 37 Areas of responsibility.
- Withdrawal of support from land
- 38 Rights to withdraw support.
- 39 Notices under section 38.
- 40 Savings for special cases.
- 41 Revocation of right to withdraw support.
- Subsidence
- 42 Subsidence damage to which 1991 Act applies.
- 43 Persons responsible for subsidence.
- 44 Cases where there is more than one responsible person.
- 45 Information to be provided by responsible persons.
- 46 The subsidence adviser.
- 47 Disputes etc. as to subsidence matters.
- 48 Offences with respect to subsidence information.
- Rights in relation to former copyhold land
- 49 Rights to work coal in former copyhold land.
- 50 Notices under section 49.
- Additional rights in relation to underground land
- 51 Additional rights in relation to underground land.
- Opencast operations
- 52 Opencast operations.
- Protection of the environment
- 53 Environmental duties in connection with planning.
- 54 Obligations to restore land affected by coal-mining operations.
- Health and safety regulations as to rescue service
- 55 Health and safety regulations as to rescue service.
- Registration of rights
- 56 Registration of rights.
- Part IV General and Supplemental
- Information provisions
- 57 Public access to information held by the Authority.
- 58 Liability for inaccurate information furnished to the Authority.
- 59 Information to be kept confidential by the Authority.
- 60 Annual report of the Authority.
- 61 Report on financial assistance for coal-mining museums.
- Supplemental
- 62 Financial provisions.
- 63 Provisions relating to the service of documents.
- 64 Offences by bodies corporate etc.
- 65 Interpretation.
- 65A. Shadow directors
- 66 Crown application.
- 67 Amendments, transitional provisions, savings and repeals.
- 68 Short title, commencement and extent.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 The Coal Authority
- Part I Organisation and Proceedings
- Membership
- Remuneration, pensions etc.
- Staff
- Proceedings of Authority
- Delegation of powers
- Interests of members
- Vacancies and defective appointments
- Minutes
- Application of seal and proof of instruments
- The Parliamentary Commissioner
- Parliamentary disqualification etc.
- Interpretation
- Part II Financial Provisions
- Financial duties
- Finances of the Authority
- Accounts
- SCHEDULE 1A Supplemental provisions with respect to powers of entry
- Interpretation
- Issue of warrants
- Manner of exercise of powers
- Duty to secure premises
- Compensation
- SCHEDULE 1B Modification of compensation provisions etc in relation to the creation of new rights
- Compensation enactments
- Adaptation of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965
- Section 7 of the 1965 Act
- Section 8 of the 1965 Act
- Effect of deed poll
- Section 11 of the 1965 Act
- Section 20 of the 1965 Act
- Section 22 of the 1965 Act
- SCHEDULE 1C Supplemental provisions with respect to powers of entry: Scotland
- Exercise of powers of entry etc.
- Warrants
- SCHEDULE 2 Restructuring schemes
- Contents and effect of scheme
- Division of property by scheme
- Property to which a scheme may relate
- Supplemental provisions of schemes
- Duties in relation to foreign property etc.
- Modification of effect of scheme by agreement
- The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981
- Compensation
- Notice to persons affected by scheme
- SCHEDULE 3 Financial structure of successor companies
- Meaning of “relevant successor company”
- Initial Government holding in companies
- Government investment in companies
- Exercise of functions through nominees
- Payment of dividends etc. into Consolidated Fund
- Distributable reserves of companies
- Temporary restrictions on borrowing of companies
- Government lending to the companies
- Treasury guarantees for loans made to companies
- Limit on Government financial assistance for companies
- SCHEDULE 4 Taxation Provisions
- Part I Corporation Tax
- Interpretation of Part I
- Chargeable gains: general
- Chargeable gains: compensation and insurance money
- Chargeable gains: section 30 of the 1992 Act
- Chargeable gains: section 41 of the 1992 Act
- Chargeable gains: options
- Chargeable gains: roll-over relief
- Chargeable gains: group transactions
- Chargeable gains: disposal of debts
- Chargeable gains: assets held before 6th April 1965
- Transfers of trading stock
- Transfer of rights to receipts
- Transfer of liabilities
- Losses to be retained by the predecessor
- Section 35 of the 1988 Act
- Group relief
- Special provision for successor companies
- Leased assets
- Continuity in relation to capital allowances etc. where trade transferred
- Capital allowances in cases where paragraph 19 does not apply
- Capital allowances in cases where interests created by restructuring scheme
- Capital allowances for machinery and plant: connected persons
- Exchange gains and losses
- Transfers of property in coal and lease back etc.
- Modifications of restructuring scheme
- Part II Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax
- Transactions attracting exemptions
- Stamp duty
- Stamp duty reserve tax
- SCHEDULE 5 Pensions Provision in connection with Restructuring
- Interpretation of Schedule
- Modification of existing schemes
- Replacement schemes for employees transferred to the private sector etc.
- Protection for rights under private sector schemes
- General provisions
- SCHEDULE 6 Further modifications of the 1991 Act
- SCHEDULE 7 Retained Interests in Copyhold Land
- Part I Claims in respect of Retained Interests
- Application of Part I
- Form of claim
- Acceptance or rejection of claim
- Payment of costs of establishing claim
- Challenge of rejection notice
- Compensation
- Persons entitled to compensation
- Agreements with respect to compensation
- Notice of compensation
- Part II Other Provisions
- Saving for rights to dispose of retained interests
- Pre-1975 Act orders under the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966
- Transitional provisions
- SCHEDULE 8 Amendments of the Opencast Coal Act 1958
- Introduction
- Power to make compulsory rights orders
- Effect of orders
- Limitations on effect of orders
- Limited compulsory rights orders
- Provisions as to other minerals, timber, crops, etc.
- Registration of orders in Scotland
- Removal of chattels from land
- Apparatus of statutory undertakers
- Agricultural tenancies in England and Wales
- Agricultural tenancies in Scotland
- Suspension of rights of way
- Supplementary provisions about suspension of rights of way
- Orders conferring rights for drainage or water supply purposes
- Annual compensation
- Calculation of compensation
- Terminal compensation
- Compensation in respect of agricultural land
- Compensation for short term improvements etc.
- Compensation in respect of forced sales
- Compensation: definition of holding
- Compensation in respect of easements and other rights
- Compensation in respect of disposable minerals
- Compensation for depreciation of land in same ownership
- Time when compensation accrues
- Records of condition of land
- Protection of land from compulsory purchase
- Entry on land
- Claims for compensation
- Compensation in respect of property held for religious purposes
- Provision in respect of mortgaged land
- Crown land
- Telecommunication apparatus
- Provisions as to regulations, orders etc.
- Interpretation
- Application to Scotland
- Procedure for compulsory rights orders in Scotland
- Other provisions with respect to the procedure for compulsory rights orders
- Compensation by way of payment for costs of works
- Compensation in respect of minerals
- Application of Schedule 6 to Scotland
- Tenancies of allotment gardens and other allotments
- SCHEDULE 9 Minor and Consequential Amendments
- The Land Registration Act 1925 (c. 21)
- The Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945 (c. 43)
- The Statistics of Trade Act 1947 (c. 39)
- The Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland)Act 1947 (c. 42)
- The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (c. 56)
- The Public Records Act 1958 (c. 51)
- The Public Health Act 1961 (c. 64)
- The Licensing Act 1964 (c. 26)
- The Gas Act 1965 (c. 36)
- The Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966 (c. 4)
- The Land Commission Act 1967 (c. 1)
- The Gaming Act 1968 (c. 65)
- The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 52)
- The Fair Trading Act 1973 (c. 41)
- The Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39)
- The Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 (c. 70)
- The Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 (c. 34)
- The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c.57)
- The Development of Rural Wales Act 1976 (c. 75)
- The Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33)
- The Estate Agents Act 1979 (c. 38)
- The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (c.46)
- The Competition Act 1980 (c. 21)
- The Overseas Development and Co-operation Act 1980 (c. 63)
- The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65)
- The Highways Act 1980 (c. 66)
- The Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67)
- The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45)
- The National Audit Act 1983 (c. 44)
- The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27)
- The Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54)
- The Companies Act 1985 (c. 6)
- The Housing Act 1985 (c. 68)
- The Weights and Measures Act 1985 (c. 72)
- The Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5)
- The Coal Industry Act 1987 (c. 3)
- The Housing Act 1988 (c. 50)
- The Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29)
- The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8)
- The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (c. 9)
- The Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991 (c. 45)
- The Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56)
- The Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57)
- The Land Drainage Act 1991 (c. 59)
- The Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28)
- SCHEDULE 10 Transitional Provisions and Savings
- General saving for repeal of the Coal Act 1938
- Deemed acknowledgments under section 14(3) of the Coal Act 1938
- Restrictions under section 33 of the Coal Act 1938
- Rights saved by section 34 of the Coal Act 1938
- Saving for rights under section 43(6) of the Coal Act 1938
- Licences under section 36 of the 1946 Act
- Repeal of section 41 of the 1946 Act
- Repeal of the Miners’ Welfare Act 1952
- Opencast coal
- Offshore coal adjacent to the Isle of Man
- Coal industry trusts and other social welfare bodies
- Interests affected by planning proposals: blight
- Subsidence
- SCHEDULE 11 Repeals
- Part I Repeals coming into force on the passing of this Act
- Part II Repeals coming into force on the restructuring date
- Part III Repeals coming into force on an appointed day
- Part IV Repeals coming into force on the dissolution date
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