Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004

87 Old mining permissions

(1) Subsection (2) applies if—

(a) an old mining permission relates to land which is Crown land, and

(b) the permission has not been registered in pursuance of Schedule 2 to the Planning and Compensation Act 1991.

(2) Section 22 of and Schedule 2 to that Act apply to the old mining permission subject to the following modifications—

(a) in section 22(3) for “May 1, 1991” there is substituted “the date of commencement of section 87(2) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004”;

(b) in paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 2 for “the day on which this Schedule comes into force” there is substituted “the date of commencement of section 87(2) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004”.

(3) Old mining permission must be construed in accordance with section 22 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991.

(4) Crown land must be construed in accordance with Part 13 of the principal Act.