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        Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 (c.59)
        Introductory Text
        Main body
        The National Coal Board
        1. Establishment of National Coal Board and functions thereof.
        2. Constitution of the Board.
        3. Powers of the Minister in relation to the Corporation.
        4. Consumers' councils.
        Transfer of assets to the Board
        5. Transfer of assets generally.
        6. Transfer of interests in patents and designs.
        7. Transfer of rights and liabilities under contracts.
        8. Vesting of rights to use of certain property.
        9. Ascertainment of assets, rights and liabilities transferred, and determination of questions as to transfer.
        10-25. . . .
        Financial provisions
        26. . . .
        27. Temporary borrowing powers of the Board.
        28. Payments to the Minister by the Corporation.
        29. Reserve fund of the Board.
        30. Application of surplus revenues of the Corporation.
        31. Board's accounts and audit thereof.
        32. Issue of stock in exchange for Coal Commission Stock.
        33. General provisions as to stock.
        34. Issues out of the Consolidated Fund for money payments and for advances to the Board.
        35. Account of Minister's receipts.
        Savings, and provisions consequential on nationalisation
        36. Savings as to certain coal, etc.
        37. Provisions as to superannuation, etc., rights.
        38. Transfer to the Board of property and functions of the Coal Commission, other than interests in coal.
        39. Abolition of coal advisory committee under 10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 50, s. 4.
        40. . . .
        41. Power to vary trusts of property provided out of the Miners' Welfare Fund.
        42. Duty of the Minister to prosecute safety and health research, and winding up of research endowment fund.
        43. . . .
        44. Winding-up of coal-selling schemes, and of S. Yorks. Mines Drainage Committee.
        45. Provisions as to Doncaster Drainage District and certain dock etc., undertakings.
        Miscellaneous provisions as to the Corporation
        46. Duty of the Corporation as to establishment of machinery for settlement of terms and conditions of employment, etc.
        47. Corporation not to be exempt from taxation, etc.
        48. Transfer of liability for subsidence from colliery concerns to the Corporation.
        49. Provisions as to liability of the Corporation in actions, etc.
        50. . . .
        51. . . .
        52. Right to inspection and copies of the Board's plans of workings.
        53. Availability of transferred documents and staff for compensation proceedings and windings up.
        54. Annual report of the Corporation.
        General
        55. Payment of certain expenses of the Minister out of moneys provided by Parliament.
        56. Restriction on disclosure of information.
        57. Use for purposes this Act of information obtained under Coal Act 1938.
        58. Penalties for giving false information, etc.
        59. Provisions as to prosecutions, and as to offences by corporations.
        60. Service of notices, etc.
        61. Arbitration under this Act.
        62. Provisions as to regulations.
        63. Interpretation.
        64. Application to Scotland.
        65. Short title, extent and repeal.
        Schedules
        FIRST SCHEDULE
        SECOND SCHEDULE
        SCHEDULE 2A Eligibility for Superannuation Rights
        THIRD SCHEDULE
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