SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 Amendments of the Opencast Coal Act 1958

Compensation for short term improvements etc.

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1

In subsection (1) of section 26 (compensation in respect of short term improvements and other matters)—

a

for “the Corporation occupy” there shall be substituted “ any person occupies ”; and

b

for “by the Corporation” there shall be substituted “ by that person ”.

2

After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

1A

Compensation shall not be payable by virtue of this section where a person’s occupation of any land, in exercise of rights conferred by a compulsory rights order, is confined to replacing in occupation a person previously entitled to exercise the rights conferred by that order.

3

In subsection (3) of that section, the words “by the Corporation” shall be omitted.