Section 1 Representation of Northern Irish interests on Coal Consumers’ Councils.

United Kingdom

F1(1)

The persons who may be appointed by the F2Secretary of State to the Consumers’ Councils established under section four of the M1Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 (hereafter in this Act referred to as “the principal Act”) shall include—

(a)

in the case of the Industrial Coal Consumers’ Council, persons appointed by him to represent consumers of coal, coke and manufactured fuel respectively in Northern Ireland for industrial purposes or other purposes involving supply in bulk, and to represent persons engaged in organising or effecting the sale or supply of coal, coke and manufactured fuel respectively in Northern Ireland for those purposes;

(b)

in the case of the Domestic Coal Consumers’ Council, persons appointed by him to represent consumers of coal, coke and manufactured fuel respectively in Northern Ireland for domestic purposes and other purposes not falling within the foregoing paragraph, and to represent persons engaged in organising or effecting the sale or supply of coal, coke or manufactured fuel respectively in Northern Ireland for those purposes.

(2)

In subsection (3) of the said section four (which provides that the duties of the Industrial Coal Consumers’ Council shall include consideration of the matters therein mentioned which are the subject of representations made by consumers of coal, coke or manufactured fuel) the reference to consumers shall include a reference to consumers in Northern Ireland, and subsection (4) of the said section (which relates to the duties of the Domestic Coal Consumers’ Council) shall be construed accordingly.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 1(1) (2) repealed (as far as they apply to Industrial Coal Consumers' Council) by European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Sch. 3 Pt. IV
F2: Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1969/1498, arts. 2(1), 5(6) and 1970/1537, arts. 2(2), 7(4)

Marginal citations

M1: 1946 c. 59.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.3.1995) by 1994 c. 21, s. 67, Sch. 11 Pt. III; S.I. 1995/273, art. 2, Sch. (with savings in Sch.)