§ 8.58 p.m.
§ This Amendment and the next two Amendments on this Clause go together. The object of them is to carry out an undertaking which was given to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Spens), who pointed out that in the Clause as printed there seemed to be a possibility of the Commission being snowed under with documents and information which they really did not require. This group of Amendments puts that, position right, because the last thing we want to do is to cumber the archives of the Commission with unnecessary documents. We accept the view that the present owners are entitled to retain for themselves the plans, surveys and so on with regard to the surface as well as the coal itself. The position of the Commission is amply safeguarded by Sub-section (3), under which they have the right to the production of documents which they require.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made:
§ In page 15, line 7, leave out "and."
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"In page 15, line 12, at the end, insert
and
(c) documents which, whilst relating solely to the management of coal or a mine of coal, relate to matters of management that touch or concern other land in which the person to whom the documents belonged is interested at the vesting date."—[Captain Crookshank.]