This document establishes the specific legal amendments required to modify the payment schemes for redundant mineworkers and concessionary coal entitlements in 1980. The text is issued by the government of Great Britain to formalize regulatory changes within the nationalized coal industry. It provides the precise statutory language necessary to adjust financial obligations and eligibility criteria for former employees. The framework serves as a formal instrument of administrative law governing labor relations and industrial compensation.

Legal professionals and historians of British industrial policy utilize this text as a primary source for tracking the evolution of labor regulations in the mining sector. Readers frequently note the technical density of the prose, which is characteristic of statutory instruments intended for administrative application.