2   Repeals

(1)  The Mine Subsidence Act 1928, the Mine Subsidence (Amendment) Act 1948, the Mine Subsidence (Amendment) Act 1951 and the Mine Subsidence (Amendment) Act 1957 are hereby repealed:

Provided that the Mine Subsidence Board constituted under this Act may in accordance with the provisions of the Acts hereby repealed:

(a)  continue to deal with and determine any claim for damage made under the Acts hereby repealed and not determined before the commencement of this Act, and

(b)  deal with and determine any claim for damage made within six months after the commencement of this Act which if the Acts hereby repealed had not been repealed could have been made in respect of damage caused by subsidence due to the extraction of coal or shale within six months immediately before such commencement.

(2)  There is hereby vested in the Board all property, real and personal, vested at the commencement of this Act in the Mine Subsidence Board constituted by the Mine Subsidence Act 1928, subject however to any trusts and liabilities attaching to that property.