Part III

Rights and Obligations in connection with Coal Mining

Subsidence

Information to be provided by responsible persons
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1
The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision imposing requirements on a person with responsibility for subsidence affecting any land—
a
to furnish information, on request, to the owner or occupier of any part of that land;
b
to furnish information to the Authority about any such request for information relating to, or to the possibility of, subsidence damage as is made otherwise than by the owner or occupier of any part of that land;
c
to notify a person who has made a request to which regulations made by virtue of paragraph (b) above apply of its being forwarded to the Authority in pursuance of those regulations; and
d
to ensure that such forms and documents as may be described in the regulations accompany information furnished under the regulations.
2
Regulations under this section may contain such provision as the Secretary of State thinks fit with respect to—
a
the descriptions of information to which any request made for the purposes of any such regulations is to be confined; and
b
the particulars to be included in, or omitted from, information furnished in accordance with any such regulations.
3
In this section the reference to an owner, in relation to any land, shall be construed in accordance with section 52(1) of the 1991 Act (interpretation); and section 50 of the 1991 Act (regulations and orders) shall apply in relation to the power to make regulations under this section as it applies in relation to any power of the Secretary of State to make regulations under that Act.
4
In subsection (5)(c) of section 46 of the 1991 Act and subsection (4)(c) of section 47 of that Act (regulations with respect to information which is to accompany notices), for “which is”, in each case, there shall be substituted “, forms and documents which are”.