Section 8 Short title, commencement and extent.

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Coal Industry Act 1975.

(2)

This Act shall come into operation at the expiry of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(3)

Section 3 of this Act does not extend to Scotland.

(4)

This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.

Notes on the whole Act

F1: 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)