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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Section 1
   2.      Section 2
   3.      Rights of mine manager with respect to instructions given by or on
           behalf of owner.
   4.      Qualifications of mine managers.
   5.      Limitation on number of mines which a person may manage.
   6.      Under-managers.
   7.      Temporary appointments during vacancy in office of mine manager or
           under-manager.
   8.      Daily supervision by mine managers and under-managers.
   9.      Charge of mine when neither manager nor under-manager nor substitute
           is present.
   10.     Duties of mine managers with respect to reading of reports, &c.
   11.     Section 11
   12.     Section 12
   13.     Other officials, engineers, technicians, &c.
   14.     Duty of mine manager to ensure that persons appointed by him
           understand their duties.
   15.     Section 15
   16.     Disqualification of contractors and their employees for appointment as
           managers, &c., of mines.
   17.     Section 17
   18.     Furnishing of documents and information requisite for preparation of
           plans.
   19.     Faulty plans.
   20.     Transmission to Ministry, and preservation, of plans of abandoned or
           disused mines, seams and veins.
   22.     Section 22
   23.     Communications between shafts and outlets in coal, &c., mines.
   24.     Limitation on number of persons to be employed at coal, &c., mines
           in places with single exits.
   25.     Limitation on number of persons to be employed at coal, &c., mines
           in shafts and outlets and their insets.
   28.     Provision of winding and haulage apparatus.
   30.     Section 30
   31.     Safety precautions with respect to entrances to shafts, staple-pits
           and outlets.
   33.     Safety precautions with respect to entrances to unfit parts of
           mines.
   34.     Section 34
   35.     Height and width of travelling roads.
   36.     Prohibition of use of vehicles and conveyors in roads not affording
           free movement.
   37.     Transport rules.
   39.     Provisions for securing safety of foot-passengers in transport roads.
   40.     Provision of refuge holes.
   41.     Safety measures relating to use of vehicles.
   42.     Section 42
   43.     Charge of winding and rope haulage apparatus when persons are not
           carried.
   44.     Charge of conveyors at working faces.
   45.     Signalling in shafts and outlets.
   46.     Signalling in roads.
   48.     Section 48
   49.     Systematic support in coal, shale and fireclay mines.
   51.     Supply of materials for support.
   52.     Section 52
   53.     Duties of deputies in relation to support.
   54.     Provisions as to support rules.
   55.     Section 55
   56.     Avoidance of danger from gas in waste.
   58.     Provisions as to means of ventilation.
   59.     Prevention of leakage of air between airways.
   60.     Provision of barometers and other measuring instruments.
   61.     Section 61
   62.     Permitted lights.
   64.     Prohibition of taking into mines safety-lamps not provided by owner
           or of approved type.
   65.     Offences relating to safety-lamps.
   66.     Prohibition of possession of smoking materials in certain mines and
           parts of mines.
   67.     Prohibition of taking into certain mines and parts of mines of
           articles producing flames or sparks.
   69.     Section 69
   70.     Section 70
   73.     Means of escape from rooms in which there is special risk of fire,
           &c.
   74.     Section 74
   75.     Section 75
   76.     Duty of mine owners and managers to ascertain thickness of strata
           between workings and surface water.
   77.     General duty to take precautions against inrushes of gas, water, &c.
   79.     Section 79
   80.     Section 80
   81.     Section 81
   82.     Fencing of exposed parts of machinery.
   83.     Restrictions on use below ground of certain engines, &c.
   84.     Air, gas and steam containers.
   85.     Loading of cranes, &c.
   86.     Section 86
   87.     Safe means of access and safe means of employment.
   88.     Section 88
   89.     Penalization of failure to observe safety directions, &c.
   90.     Section 90
   91.     Section 91
   93.     Prohibition of heavy work by women and young persons.
   94.     Section 94
   95.     Measures against vermin and insects.
   97.     Spply of drinking water.
   98.     Section 98
   99.     Power to extend to other dangerous occurrences provisions as to
           notification of accidents.
   102.    Site of accident or other dangerous occurrence to be left
           undisturbed.
   105.    Section 105
   106.    Section 106
   108.    Section 108
   109.    Hours of work and periods of employment.
   110.    Section 110
   111.    Supplemental.
   112.    Section 112
   113.    Records of certain appointments.
   114.    Provision of copies of this Act and other instruments.
   115.    Posting of notices.
   116.    Furnishing to workers of information with respect to this Act and
           orders and regulations thereunder.
   118.    Notification of beginning and ending of certain mining operations.
   119.    Notification of change of ownership or name of mine.
   120.    Section 120
   122.    Variation, revocation, &c., of regulations.
   126.    Section 126
   127.    Cancellation or suspension of certificates.
   128.    Section 128
   129.    Fencing of abandoned and disused mines.
   130.    Section 130
   131.    Section 131
   132.    Working, &c., of horses in parts of mine below ground.
   133.    Penalty for offences for which no express penalty is provided.
   134.    Section 134
   135.    Section 135
   136.    Section 136
   137.    Liability of owners for breaches of statutory duty by their
           servants.
   138.    Section 138
   140.    Removal or defacement of notices, &c.
   141.    Section 141
   142.    Restriction on institution of certain proceedings.
   143.    Duty to report results of proceedings against persons employed at
           mines.
   144.    Liability of parents for unlawful employment of children.
   145.    Section 145
   146.    Provisions as to references upon notices served by the Ministry.
   148.    Parliamentary control of orders, rules and regulations.
   149.    Mode of service of notices under this Act.
   150.    Provisions as to exemptions, &c.
   151.    Articles certified or approved in Great Britain.
   155.    Application to the Crown.
   156.    Section 156
   157.    Meaning of ""owner''.
   158.    General interpretation provisions.
   159.    Application of Act to training mines.
   160.    Section 160
   165.    1908 c.57
   166.    1911 c.50
   167.    Saving for persons managing certain small mines at commencement of
           this Act.
   168.    Saving for common law rights of workmen, &c.
   169.    Commencement.

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