Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 (c. 59)

SCHEDULES.

THIRD SCHEDULE Provisions as to Selling Schemes under Part I of the Coal Mines Act, 1930, and as to the South Yorkshire Mines Drainage Committee.

PART II The South Yorkshire Mines Drainage Committee.

Rights and Liabilities.

11 (1) As from the primary vesting date, a contract to which the Committee is a party shall have effect in favour of and against me Board as if the Board had been a party thereto instead of the Committee.

(2) Any liability for damages or the payment of compensation which, if the scheme had not ceased to have effect, might have been enforced after the primary vesting date against the Committee in respect of a tort or of an act which, apart from the scheme, would have been tortious, shall be enforceable against the Board as if the tort or act in question had been that of the Board.