HC Deb 14 February 1951 vol 484 c407

"to establish a fund for the purpose of financing the restoration of land in England used for the working of ironstone by opencast operations and to provide for payments to and from that fund; to make provision for the reclamation, cultivation, afforestation or other treatment of such land; to provide for setting off the development charge in respect of certain minerals against payments under Part VI of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, or Part V of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947, in respect of interests therein, for the modification of certain mining leases and orders granting working rights, and for the application of section eighty-one of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 and section seventy-eight of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947 to certain minerals of the National Coal Board; to authorise the temporary stopping up or diversion of highways for the purpose of working minerals by opencast operations; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid," presented by Mr. Dalton; supported by Mr. Thomas Williams, Mr. McNeil, Mr. G. R. Strauss, Mr. Douglas Jay and Mr. Lindgren; read the First time to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 66.]