Coal Act 1938

35 Execution of Registration Act and amendment as to inspection of the register

(1) The functions of the Board of Trade under the Registration Act, other than any power thereby conferred on the Board to make rules, are hereby transferred to, and shall be performed by, the Commission, and the Registration Act shall accordingly have effect with the substitution for references to the Board of references to the Commission.

(2) The Commission shall pay to the Board a sum equal to the expenses incurred by the Board under the Registration Act, and section two of that Act shall cease to have effect.

Any difference arising between the Commission and the Board as to the amount payable under this section by the Commission shall be determined by the Treasury, and any sum so payable shall be recoverable as a debt due from the Commission to the Crown and, when received by the Board, shall be paid into the Exchequer.

(3) As from the vesting date the particulars registered in respect of a holding in the case of which notice of the registration has been duly given to the Regional Valuation Board under the Third Schedule to this Act shall be open to the inspection of the public at all convenient times, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed, and subsection (7) of section one of the Registration Act shall have effect subject to this provision.

(4) The obligation of the Commission under subsection (2) of section one of the Registration Act to receive an application made under that Act in respect of any holding shall cease at the expiration of the period within which such an application is required by the Third Schedule to this Act to be made in order for compensation to be payable in respect of the holding.