The Coal Commission was a United Kingdom government agency, created to own and manage coal reserves. It was set up in 1938 and ceased to operate on 1 January 1947.
5-470: (Redirected from Coal Commission ) Coal commission or Coal Commission may refer to: Coal Commission (United Kingdom) , a UK government agency to manage coal reserves between 1938 and 1947 Coal commission (Germany) (Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment), a German government commission between 2018 and 2019 See also [ edit ] Federal Coal Commission Topics referred to by
10-725: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Coal Commission (United Kingdom) The Commission was constituted under the Coal Act 1938 . The Act provided for the vesting in the Commission, from 1 July 1942, of the ownership of all coal (and certain, i.e. some, associated minerals and rights). Subject to the provisions of the Act, the Commissioners were charged to exercise their functions as owners "in such manner as they may think best for promoting
15-466: The Board of Trade . The Commissioners were charged with duties of promoting amalgamations of colliery-undertakings in any area in which they considered the number of separate undertakings to be so great as to be detrimental to the efficient working, treating or disposing of coal. The chairman of the Commission was Sir Ernest Gowers and the secretary and controller was Christopher Hurst . The Coal Act 1938
20-476: The interests, efficiency and better organisation of the coal-mining industry." The aggregate amount of compensation to be payable by the Commission for coal and coal-rights was fixed by the Act at £66,450,000, with additional sums for other associated property and rights. Valuation of separate coal holdings (as registered under the Coal (Registration of Ownership) Act 1937) was carried out by Valuation Boards appointed by
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