RIGHT OF BOARD TO WORK COAL IN FORMER COPYHOLD LAND

HC Deb 15 July 1975 vol 895 cc1445-6

Lords Amendment: No. 2, in page 6, line 16, leave out from "pay" to "compensation" in line 17.

Mr. Eadie

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. George Thomas)

With this it might be convenient to take the following Lords amendments:

No. 3, in page 6, line 25, leave out subsection (5) and insert— (5) Schedule (Retained interests: notices and compensation) to this Act shall have effect for supplementing the provisions of this section. No. 4, in page 6, line 37, leave out the owner of a retained interest and insert "any person"

No. 5, in page 6, line 39, leave out from "reasonable" to end of line 43 and insert: valuation expenses incurred by him for the purpose of ascertaining the value, at the date referred to in subsection (4) above, of the retained interest to which the compensation relates". No. 6, in page 6, line 46, at end insert— () Subject to paragraph 9 of Schedule (Retained interests: notices and compensation) to this Act, the service of a notice under subsection (2) above shall not prevent the Board from acquiring by agreement any retained interest in coal or a mine of coal comprised in or lying under land in the area to which the notice relates. No. 7, in page 7, line 10, at beginning insert "(a)"

No. 8, in page 7, line 13, leave out "that land" and insert: so much of that land as consists of that coal or mine of coal". No. 9, in page 7, line 14, at end insert— and (b) in so far as notice of a retained interest which is given as mentioned in subsection (3)(b) above at a time when the Board as so entitled relates to a retained interest in any land in or under which that coal or mine of coal is comprised or lies, for the purposes of determining the amount of any compensation payable under subsection (4) above, that interest shall be treated as not subsisting in that coal or mine of coal. No. 10, in page 7, line 15, after "section" insert: and Schedule (Retained interests: notices and compensation) to this Act". No. 11, in page 7, line 23, after "section" insert: and Schedule (Retained interests: notices and compensation) to this Act". No. 15, in page 17, line 49, after Schedule 1 at end insert new Schedule A—