{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-act-1975/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-act-1975/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/56",
  "legislation_title": "Coal Industry Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-act-1975",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for grants to the National Coal Corporation to meet expenditure under a scheme providing for compensation for pneumoconiosis; to enable the Corporation to withdraw support to enable coal to be worked and to work coal in former copyhold land; to make further provision in relation to opencast operations; and for purposes connected therewith.\n[1st August 1975]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "In this Act, for the words “Board” and “Board's” wherever they occur (except in ss. 1(4), 2(5), (6), (8), paras. 2(a) and 3(c) of Sch. 1 and in the first place they occur in s. 3(8)) there is substituted the words “Corporation” and “Corporation's” by Coal Industry Act 1987 (c. 3, SIF 86), s. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 28(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.9.1975 see s. 8(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/56/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:36:55.927991+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}