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				</ukm:Metadata><Contents><ContentsTitle>Mineral Workings Act 1985</ContentsTitle><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/1" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/1" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>1</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Repeals.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/2" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/2" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>2</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/3" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/3" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>3</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Ironstone extracted in 1984-85.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/4" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/4" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>4</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Arrangements affecting agricultural land.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/5" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/5" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>5</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Finance for forestry.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/6" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/6" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>6</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Further provisions as to 1951 Act.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-7" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/7" RestrictStartDate="2009-06-01" RestrictExtent="E+W" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/7"><ContentsNumber>7</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Power to enter former mining land <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</Abbreviation></ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-8" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/8" RestrictStartDate="2009-06-01" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/8" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>8</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Works on former mining land etc.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-9" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/9" RestrictExtent="E+W+S" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/9"><ContentsNumber>9</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Interpretation.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-10" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/10" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/10" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>10</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Repeals.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsItem ContentRef="section-11" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/11" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/section/11" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>11</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Citation, commencement and extent.</ContentsTitle></ContentsItem><ContentsSchedules><ContentsTitle> SCHEDULES</ContentsTitle><ContentsSchedule ContentRef="schedule-1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/schedule/1" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/schedule/1" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>SCHEDULE 1</ContentsNumber></ContentsSchedule><ContentsSchedule ContentRef="schedule-2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/schedule/2" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/schedule/2" RestrictExtent="E+W+S"><ContentsNumber>SCHEDULE 2</ContentsNumber><ContentsTitle> Repeals</ContentsTitle></ContentsSchedule></ContentsSchedules></Contents><Primary><PrimaryPrelims DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/12/introduction" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/introduction"><Title>Mineral Workings Act 1985</Title><Number>1985 c. 12</Number><LongTitle>An Act to repeal certain provisions of the Mineral Workings Acts 1951 and 1971, to transfer the assets of the Ironstone Restoration Fund to the British Steel Corporation, to make further provision about agricultural ironstone land and forestry on ironstone land, to confer powers in connection with the reclamation, improvement or bringing into use of certain land, and for connected purposes.</LongTitle><DateOfEnactment><DateText>[27 March 1985]</DateText></DateOfEnactment><PrimaryPreamble><EnactingText><Para><Text><CommentaryRef Ref="c765712"/>Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—</Text></Para></EnactingText></PrimaryPreamble></PrimaryPrelims></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c765712" Type="I"><Para><Text>Act wholly in force at 27.5.1985 see <CitationSubRef id="c00001" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/11/2" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/12/section/11/4" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-11-2" EndSectionRef="section-11-4">s. 11(2)-(4)</CitationSubRef>.</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>