Mineral Workings Act 1985

6 Further provisions as to 1951 Act

(1) Any payment made under section 4 of the 1951 Act before 1 April 1985 (as adjusted by any recovery actually made before that day under subsection (3) of that section) shall be taken to be equal to the amount actually due in respect of the financial year concerned.

(2) Notwithstanding section 16 of the [1978 c. 30.] Interpretation Act 1978, no payment shall be made on or after 1 April 1985 under section 9, 12(5) or 18 of the 1951 Act.

(3) Paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the [1967 c. 10.] Forestry Act 1967 (special parliamentary procedure on compulsory purchase) shall not apply to a compulsory purchase order under section 40 of that Act for the acquisition of worked ironstone land within the ironstone district.

This subsection re-enacts section 25(2) of the 1951 Act.

(4) The following shall be inserted after section 41(2) of the 1951 Act—

“(2A) In this Act, except where the contrary is provided or the context otherwise requires, expressions defined in the [1971 c. 78.] Town and Country Planning Act 1971 have the same meanings as in that Act.

In the application of this Act to Scotland, for the reference to the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 in this subsection there shall be substituted a reference to the [1972 c. 52.] Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972.”