1. These regulations shall come into operation on the twentieth day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and may be cited as the Opencast Coal (Notice of Record) Regulations, 1958.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

3. The forms set out in the Schedule hereto, or forms substantially to the like effect, shall be the forms to be used for the purposes of subsection (5) of section thirty-six of the Opencast Coal Act, 1958, in the cases to which those forms are respectively applicable.

SCHEDULE

FORM NO. 1Notice of the making of a record of the condition of land as on the date of entry under an opencast site order

FORM NO. 2Notice of the making of a record of the condition of land comprised in a compulsory rights order at the end of the period of occupation

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 36 of the Opencast Coal Act, 1958, requires the National Coal Board to cause a record to be made of the condition of land-

(a) as on the date of entry under an opencast site order, and

(b) as at the end of the period of occupation under any compulsory rights order other than a limited compulsory rights order made in accordance with section 8 of the Act,

and to serve on certain persons notice of the making of the record. These regulations prescribe the form of the notices.