Part of Orders of the Day — Coal Mining (Subsidence) Bill – in the House of Commons am 9:30 pm ar 22 Ebrill 1991.
David Heathcoat-Amory
, Wells
9:30,
22 Ebrill 1991
I beg to move, Amendment No. 4, in page 12, line 14, at end insert—
'(2A) It shall be the duty of the Corporation to specify in such a notice such works (if any) as are required in order to
render the damaged property reasonably fit to be used for the purposes for which it was used immediately before the damage became evident, not being—
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