Mining Industry (Welfare Fund) Act 1939
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1939 c. 9 |
| Year | 1939 |
Mining Industry (Welfare Fund) Act, 1939
(2 & 3 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 9.
An Act to amend section twenty of the Mining Industry Act, 1920, and the enactments amending that section.
[27th March 1939]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Increase of sums payable to Miners' Welfare Fund and application thereof.
(1) The sum payable into the Miners' Welfare Fund under section twenty of the Mining Industry Act, 1920 of section two of the Mining Industry (Welfare Fund) Act, 1934 .
(2) The said sum shall, notwithstanding anything in the said section twenty, be payable, as respects the output of every coal mine during each quarter of the said five years, before the last day of the next following quarter; and accordingly subsection (4) of section two of the Mining Industry (Welfare Fund) Act, 1934 (which provides for the determination of the person by whom the said sum is payable) shall have effect, as respects the output of any coal mine during the said five years, with the substitution for references therein to a calendar year or to a year of references to a quarter.
(3) Of the sums paid into the said fund under the said section twenty as respects the output of coal mines during the said five years, one half shall be appropriated (in priority to any other payments) for the purposes for which the proceeds of the royalties welfare levy are required to be appropriated, in addition to any sum required to be appropriated for those purposes by subsection (2) of section three of the Mining Industry (Welfare Fund) Act, 1934.
(4) Notwithstanding anything in the proviso to subsection (3) of the said section twenty, no part of the sums appropriated by virtue of this section shall be required to be allocated for the benefit of any particular district.
2 Incorporation of Miners' Welfare Commission.
(1) There shall be constituted a Miners' Welfare Commission consisting of ten persons appointed by the Board of Trade, of whom—
(a ) three shall be appointed after consultation with the Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain;
(b ) three shall be appointed after consultation with the Mining Association of Great Britain; and
(c ) one shall be appointed after consultation either with the persons liable to pay the royalties welfare levy or with such associations or bodies as appear to the Board to represent those persons.
(2) The said Commission shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and power to hold land without licence in mortmain.
(3) As from such date as the Board of Trade may by order appoint—
(a ) all the powers, duties, property and liabilities of the committee constituted under subsection (3) of section twenty of the Mining Industry Act, 1920, shall be transferred to the said Commission; and
(b ) any reference to the said committee in any enactment or document shall be construed as a reference to the said Commission.
(4) The said Commission—
(a ) may enter into such agreements, acquire such property, appoint such officers, agents and servants, and do such things as may in the opinion of the Commission be necessary or desirable for the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties, and may dispose as it thinks fit of any...
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