{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-compulsory-rights-and-rights-of-way-forms-regulations-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-compulsory-rights-and-rights-of-way-forms-regulations-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1915",
  "legislation_title": "The Opencast Coal (Compulsory Rights and Rights of Way) (Forms) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-compulsory-rights-and-rights-of-way-forms-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "COAL INDUSTRY\nMade 10th November 1987\nLaid before Parliament 20th November 1987\nComing into force 11th December 1987\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4, 15A(1), (5)(c) and (10) and 49(1) of the Opencast Coal Act 1958 (“the 1958 Act”), sections 7(2), 10(2), 11(1), 12, 15, 22 and 29 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 as applied by section 4(4A) of the 1958 Act and paragraphs 2, 3, 6, 13 and 18 of Schedule 1 to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947 as applied by section 4(5) and (8) of, and Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, the 1958 Act, and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1958 c. 69; section 15A is inserted by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63) and is set out in Schedule 8 to that Act as is a substituted form of section 15 of the 1958 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 67; see in particular the definition of “prescribed” in section 29(10)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 4(4A) is inserted by paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 4 to the 1981 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1947 c. 42"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See in particular the definition of “prescribed” in paragraph 11 of Schedule 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "See the definition of “the Minister” in section 51 of the 1958 Act, S.I. 1969/1498 and 1970/1537"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1915/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:18:23.350320+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."
}