Coal Act 1943

13Extension of Commission's liability or costs

Paragraph 22 of the Third Schedule to the principal Act (which requires the Commission to pay costs reasonably incurred in connection with certain matters by persons having acquired interests or their successors in title) shall extend, and be deemed always to have extended, to costs so incurred by any person, whether he is such a person as aforesaid or not; and accordingly that paragraph shall have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, as if, in sub-paragraph (1) thereof—

(a)the words " having an acquired interest that is comprised in a holding or a successor in title of his " were omitted ; and

(b)for the words " the holding ", in both places where they occur, there were substituted the words " a holding ".