{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-act-1994/section-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-act-1994/section-4A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/21",
  "legislation_title": "Coal Industry Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-industry-act-1994",
  "path": "section/4A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": "Power of the Authority with respect to coal mine water discharge",
  "text": "(1) The Authority may take such action as it considers appropriate (if any) for the purpose of preventing, or mitigating the effect of, the discharge of water from a coal mine into or on to any land or into any controlled waters.\n(2) In this section and sections 4B , 4C and 4CA below—\n(a) “controlled waters” has the meaning given by section 104 of the Water Resources Act 1991; and\n(b) references to coal mines are to coal mines vested in the Authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 4A-4C inserted (1.4.2004) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 85(1), 105(3); S.I. 2004/641, art. 3(w) (with Sch. 3 para. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4A(2) substituted (26.3.2015) by Energy Act 2011 (c. 16), ss. 115(2), 121(1); S.I. 2015/880, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/21/section/4A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:04.603098+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."
}