{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-act-1958/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/69",
  "legislation_title": "Opencast Coal Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-act-1958",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Before submitting to the Minister an application for the Minister’s authorisation under section one of this Act, the Corporationshall—\n(a) in two successive weeks publish in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality in which the relevant land is situated and in the London Gazette a notice in the prescribed form stating the intention of the Corporation to submit the application to the Minister, describing the relevant land, naming a place in the locality where a copy of the application and of the map referred to therein can be inspected, and specifying the time (not being less than twenty-eight days from the first publication of the notice) within which, and the manner in which, objections to the application can be made;\n(b) serve on every local planning authority in whose area any part of the relevant land is situated, and on every other local authority, being the council of a county, county borough or district in whose area any part of that land is situated, a notice in the prescribed form stating that the application is intended to be submitted to the Minister, and specifying the time (not being less than twenty-eight days from the service of the notice) within which, and the manner in which, objections to the application can be made;\n(c) except in so far as the Minister directs that this provision shall not have effect in any particular case, serve a like notice on every owner, lessee and occupier (except tenants for a month or any period less than a month) of any part of the relevant land;\n(d) in the case of any land with respect to which a direction is given under the last preceding sub-paragraph, affix to some conspicuous object or objects on the land a notice or notices in the prescribed form addressed to “the owners and any occupiers” of the land (describing it) containing the particulars required to be contained in a notice served under the last preceding sub-paragraph:\nProvided that no direction under sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph shall have effect in relation to an owner, lessee or occupier being a local authority or statutory undertakers or the National Trust.\n(2) If the Corporationpropose to include in an application for an authorisation under section 1 of this Act an application for an order under section 15 thereof, sub-paragraph (1) above shall have effect as if—\n(a) any reference therein to the application for the authorisation included a reference to the application for the order under section 15;\n(b) the local authorities specified in paragraph (b) thereof included the council of a parish or community and the parish meeting of a parish which does not have a separate parish council; and\n(c) at the end of paragraph (d) thereof there were inserted the following paragraph:—\n“(e) in any case where the application is to include an application for an order under section 15 of this Act suspending a public right of way, cause a copy of the notice referred to in paragraph (b) of this paragraph to be displayed in a prominent position at the ends of the public right of way to which the application relates.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 repealed (11.12.1987) by 1986 c. 63, s. 39(4), Sch. 12 Pt. II; S.I. 1987/1939, arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word “(1)” inserted by Coal Industry Act 1975 (c. 56), s. 5(2)(3), Sch. 4 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word substituted by 1987 c. 3, s. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Para. 4(2) added by Coal Industry Act 1975 (c. 56), s. 5(2)(3), Sch. 4 para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:33.354714+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."
}