6 Power to require specified development works as condition of grants of gales.U.K.
(1)Where after the passing of this Act the gaveller makes a grant of any gale to which this Act applies he may if he thinks fit make it a condition of the grant that the galee shall within a period specified in the grant carry out such works for the opening working and developing of the mines of coal comprised in the grant as may be specified in the grant.
(2)Any condition under this section may be imposed in addition to or in substitution for any obligation of the galee under any of the rules and regulations as to coal mines made pursuant to the principal Act or to any Acts amending that Act and may be enforced by forfeiture and otherwise as though it were one of the rules and regulations specified in section twenty-nine of the principal Act.
(3)If any dispute arises between the gaveller and the galee as to whether any condition under this section has been complied with it shall be referred to arbitration in the same manner as a dispute as to the opening of a gale under the said rules and regulations.