Coal Act 1938

5 (1) The Board of Trade shall, after consultation with the Central Valuation Board or the Regional Valuation Board, as the case may be, appoint a person to act as clerk to each of the said Boards, and such number of persons as the Board of Trade think fit to act as officers and servants of each of the said Boards.

(2) The Commission shall pay to the chairman and to the members of each of the said Boards and to the officers and servants of each of the said Boards and to a referee appointed under this Schedule, such remuneration, and such allowances for expenses properly incurred by any of them as the Board of Trade may determine, and the Commission shall pay such other expenses of the Central Valuation Board and of a Regional Valuation Board and of a referee appointed under this Schedule as the Board of Trade may determine.

(3) No person who has an acquired interest, or who has acted in any capacity in connection with the valuation under this Schedule of a holding on behalf of a person having an acquired interest, shall be appointed to be the chairman or an independent member of the Central Valuation Board or of a Regional Valuation Board, and neither the chairman nor an independent member of any such Board shall act as aforesaid. None of the other members of any such Board shall vote on the taking of any determination of the Board as to the value of a holding in respect of which he has acted as aforesaid or, if he has any acquired interest, of a holding that comprises that interest.

Any person who contravenes the provisions of this paragraph shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds in respect of every day on which he acts in contravention thereof.

(4) The Central Valuation Board and a Regional Valuation Board may cause any inquiry or inspection required to be made by them to be made on their behalf by one or more of the members or officers or servants of the Board.

(5) It shall be the duty of each person having an acquired interest that is comprised in a holding to furnish to the Central Valuation Board, or a referee appointed under this Schedule, or the Regional Valuation Board, on being requested so to do by the Board or the referee, all such information with respect to any matter relevant to the valuation of the holding as the Board or the referee may reasonably require, and the Board or the referee may require any such person to verify any information given by him in such manner by statutory declaration or otherwise as may be reasonably requisite.

(6) The provisions of the Arbitration Acts, 1889 to 1934, with respect to—

(a) the administration of oaths and the taking of affirmations;

(b) the correction of mistakes and errors in awards; and

(c) the summoning, attendance and examination of witnesses and the production of documents;

shall apply in respect of proceedings before the Central Valuation Board, or a referee appointed under this Schedule, or a Regional Valuation Board, but save as aforesaid the said Acts shall not apply to or at any such proceedings.

(7) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule and of rules made thereunder, the Central Valuation Board, a referee appointed under this Schedule, and a Regional Valuation Board shall have power to regulate their own procedure.