Coal industry Act 1994

28In section 38 (exclusion from compulsory purchase order of land subject to opencast planning permission)—

(a)in paragraph (a), for “the Corporation” there shall be substituted “a relevant person”;

(b)in paragraph (b), for “the Corporation give” there shall be substituted “that relevant person gives”; and

(c)at the end there shall be inserted— In this section “relevant person” means any licensed operator within the meaning of the Coal Industry Act 1994 or any person who is certified by the Coal Authority as a person whose application to that Authority for a licence under Part II of that Act is pending.