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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 128

128.(1) Regulations may make such provision as appears to the Ministry to be
necessary or expedient for the purpose of ensuring that every tip, being an
active tip or a closed tip, is made and kept secure.

(2) Regulations made under this section may contain such incidental and
supplementary provisions as appear to the Ministry to be appropriate, and may
in particular provide for the application, in relation to tips of any class to
which the regulations apply, of any of the provisions of this Act, with or
without modifications, and for any amendments of this Act which are
consequential on those provisions.

(3) In this section

"tip" means an accumulation or deposit of refuse from a mine (whether in a
solid state or in solution or suspension) other than an accumulation or
deposit situated underground, and where any wall or other structure retains or
confines a tip then, whether or not that wall or structure is itself composed
of refuse, it shall be deemed to form part of the tip for the purposes of
this Act;

"active tip" means a tip on premises which are deemed to form part of a mine
by virtue of section 156(4);

"closed tip" means a tip not on such premises, where the mine with which the
tip is associated has not been adandoned and the entirety or any part of the
premises on which the tip is situated continues to be occupied exclusively by
the owner of that mine.

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