SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8E+W+S Amendments of the Opencast Coal Act 1958

Compensation for short term improvements etc.E+W+S

20(1)In subsection (1) of section 26 (compensation in respect of short term improvements and other matters)—E+W+S

(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.