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MINERAL DEVELOPMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 24

Provisions supplemental to section 23.

24.(1) A mining facilities order may provide for the incorporation in the
order of any transferred provision contained in a clauses Act, subject to any
modifications of that provision specified in the order.

(2) The powers conferred on the Ministry by section 23 may be exercised over
land

(a)which is the property of a local authority, or

(b)which is the property of any public body which has power under any
transferred provision to acquire land compulsorily, or

(c)which is declared by or under any transferred provision to be inalienable,

(3) The Ministry shall not make a mining facilities order in relation to any
land [on or in which there is a historic monument], without the consent of
the Ministry of Finance.

(4) The powers conferred by sections 23 to 26 shall not be exercised for the
purpose of facilitating the working of any scheduled substance except to the
extent that the working of that substance is necessary or expedient for the
purpose of facilitating the working of any mineral which is not a scheduled
substance.

(5) Section 23 does not authorise the compulsory acquisition of any land, or
of ancillary rights over any land, which is the property of Her Majesty or any
government department or any religious denomination or educational
institution.

(6) In subsection (1) "clauses Act" means any act for consolidating in one Act
provisions usually contained in Acts authorising the carrying out of
particular undertakings.

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