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Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946

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43Amendments of working facilities enactments.

(1)As from the primary vesting date, no order shall be made under section two of the [13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 20.] Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923 (which relates to the granting of rights in the case of a failure or refusal of lessors of mines within the meaning of that Act to concur in an adjustment of boundaries) on the ground of any failure or refusal on the part of the Board.

(2)As from the primary vesting date, no application made with respect to coal under subsection (2) of section thirteen of the [16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 28.] Mining Industry Act, 1926 (which enables the Railway and Canal Commission to grant a right to work coal and certain other minerals freed from restrictions contained in a mining lease within the meaning of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923, or otherwise binding on the person entitled to work them, or to work coal and certain other minerals on other terms and conditions), being an application made otherwise than by the Board, shall be referred by the Minister to the Railway and Canal Commission unless the Board have given notice in writing to the Minister that they have no power to grant the right, or any of the rights, for which the application is made.

(3)As from the primary vesting date, subsection (2) of section ten of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923 (which requires the Minister and any other Government Department and the Coal Commission to give to the Railway and Canal Commission such assistance as that Commission may require for the purposes of their duties under Part I of that Act) shall have effect with the substitution, for the words " The Minister of Fuel and Power and any other Government Department and the Coal Commission ", of the words " The Minister of Fuel and Power and any other Government Department and the National Coal Board ".

(4)A right to search and bore for coal may be conferred on the Board under, and in accordance with the provisions of, Part I of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923, and accordingly sections four, five, six and nine of that Act shall have effect as if references therein to working minerals (other than such references in subsection (2) of the said section five) included references to searching and boring for coal.

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