HC Deb 23 March 1994 vol 240 c382

Amendment made: No. 31, in page 60, line 25, at end insert— '(1A) References in this Act to the treatment of coal in the strata shall be taken not to include references to any operations which—

  1. (a) are carried on in relation to coal in or to which any oil or gas that exists in its natural condition in the strata is absorbed or adsorbed; and
  2. (b) are so carried on wholly for the purpose of winning or getting that oil or gas;
and in this subsection "oil or gas" means oil or gas within the meaning of section 9 above.'.—[Mr. Eggar.]

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