Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Coal Mining Subsidence (Subsidence Adviser) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 31st October 1994.

In these Regulations—

• “the 1991 Act” means the Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991;

• “the 1994 Act” means the Coal Industry Act 1994;

• “complainant” means a person, other than a responsible person, by or on whose behalf a complaint of a kind to which regulation 4 applies has been made;

• “financial year” means the period of 12 months commencing on 1st April;

• “Lands Tribunal” means, in relation to Scotland, the Lands Tribunal for Scotland;

• “notify” means notify in writing;

• “responsible person” means a person with responsibility for subsidence affecting land^f1;

• “the Subsidence Adviser” means the person for the time being appointed under regulation 2;

• “subsidence provisions” means the 1991 Act, sections 42 to 48 of, and Schedule 6 to, the 1994 Act and the subordinate legislation for the time being in force under any of those enactments; and

• “subsidence requirements” means the requirements referred to in section 47(9) of the 1994 Act.