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.