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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-act-1958/schedule-THIRD/paragraph-3",
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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/THIRD/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a notice has been given under the last preceding paragraph, the final operator, within the prescribed time after the giving of that notice, may serve on the applicant a counter-notice, stating—\n(a) that the final operatorobjects to the work specified in the applicant’s notice, or to such one or more items thereof as may be specified in the counter-notice, and\n(b) that the final operator objects thereto on such one or more grounds as may be specified in the counter-notice, being one or more of the grounds mentioned in the next following paragraph.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 para. 40(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 3(a) substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 para. 40(2)(a) (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 3(b) substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 52, Sch. 8 para. 40(2)(b) (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/69/schedule/THIRD/paragraph/3",
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  },
  "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."
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