The Coal Industry (Restructuring Grants) Order 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/1225
• Sections: 6

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the Coal Industry (Restructuring Grants)Order 1991 and shall come into force on the third day after the day onwhich it is made.

Section 2

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1991/92 financial year ” means the financial year of the Corporation ending in March 1992;

“ the Act ” means the Coal Industry Act 1987;

“the Corporation” means the British Coal Corporation;

“chargeable costs” means costs which fall to be charged to a consolidated profit andloss account of the Corporation and their subsidiaries prepared inaccordance with a direction given under section 8(1) of the CoalIndustry Act 1971 for the 1991/92 financial year;

“employees” means employees of a relevant company;

“payments” means periodical or lump sum payments;

“relevant company” means the Corporation, their wholly-owned subsidiary National FuelDistributors Limited or their wholly-owned subsidiary British CoalEnterprise Limited and the expression“relevant companies” shall be construed accordingly;

and references to payments, contributions or expenditure arereferences to payments, contributions or expenditure by a relevantcompany.

Section 3

The 1991/92 financial year shall be a specified financial year forthe purposes of section 3(4)(a) of the Act.

Section 4

The kinds of expenditure specified in the Schedule to this Ordershall be specified kinds of expenditure for the purposes of section3(2)(a) of the Act in relation to the 1991/92 financial year.

Section 5

(1) The maximum amount which may be paid under section 3 of the Actby way of grant in respect of the 1991/92 financial year in relation tothe kinds of expenditure specified under a Head in the Schedule is thatsum which represents 90 per cent. of—

(a) the relevant amount of costs specified in paragraph (2) below; or

(b) if a larger amount has been agreed in respect of those costs forthe purposes of section 3(2)(b) of the Act, that larger amount.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) above the relevant amount ofcosts is—

(a) in the case of Heads 1, 2 and 5, the total amount of chargeablecosts of the relevant companies which are related to the kinds ofexpenditure specified under the Head in question; and

(b) in the case of Head 6, the total amount of chargeable costs of theCorporation’s wholly-owned subsidiary British Coal Enterprise Limitedwhich are related to the kinds of expenditure specified under that Headless the total amount of any chargeable costs of that subsidiary whichare related to the kinds of expenditure specified under Heads 1, 2 and5.

Section 6

The limit specified in section 3(6) of the Act (limit on theaggregate of grants under section 3(1)) is increased from£1,250 million to £1,500 million.