Coal Act 1938

16 (1) When a Regional Valuation Board have settled the valuations of all the holdings in their region for which compensation is payable, and the proceedings on all claims for reference under paragraph 12 of this Schedule relating to any such holdings have been completed, and the time within which any other claim for such reference may be made has expired, the Board shall certify the amounts ascertained by those valuations respectively to the Commission in accordance with subsection (6) of section seven of this Act, and the Commission shall send to the claimant in respect of each such holding a copy of the certificate that relates to that holding, together with a statement of the aggregate of the amounts certified in respect of all such holdings as attributable to principal coal hereditaments.

(2) The provisions of this paragraph and of the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule, that relate to the notification of an amount ascertained by a valuation, whether in draft, settled, revised, or certified, shall extend to the notification of a nil valuation.