MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 129 Fencing of abandoned and disused mines.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 129

Fencing of abandoned and disused mines.

129.(1) It shall be the duty of the owner of every abandoned mine and of every
mine which, notwithstanding that it has not been abandoned, has not been
worked for a period of twelve months to secure that the surface entrance to
every shaft or outlet thereof is provided with an efficient enclosure,
barrier, plug or other device so designed and constructed as to prevent any
person from accidentally falling down the shaft or from accidentally entering
the outlet and that every device so provided is properly maintained; but this
subsection shall not apply to mines which have not been worked for the purpose
of getting minerals or products thereof since 9th August, 1872, being mines
other than of coal, stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay.

(2) For the purposes of section 107 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878,
each of the following shall be deemed to be a nuisance liable to be dealt with
summarily in manner provided by that Act, that is to say:

(a)a shaft or outlet of an abandoned mine (other than a mine excepted from the
application of subsection (1)) or of a mine (other than as aforesaid) which,
notwithstanding that it has not been abandoned, has not been worked for a
period of twelve months, being a shaft or outlet the surface entrance to which
is not provided with a properly maintained device such as is mentioned in that
subsection;

(b)a shaft or outlet of a mine excepted from the application of subsection
(1), being a shaft or outlet with respect to which the following conditions
are satisfied, namely,

(i)that its surface entrance is not provided with a properly maintained device
such as is mentioned in that subsection; and

(ii)that, by reason of its accessibility from a highway or a place of public
resort, it constitutes a danger to members of the public.

(3) Any expenses incurred, by reason of the operation of sections 107 to 127
of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878, by a person other than the owner (as
defined for the purposes of this Act) of a mine for the purpose of abating, or
preventing the recurrence of, a nuisance under subsection (2) or in
reimbursing a sanitary authority in respect of the abatement, or prevention of
the recurrence, of such a nuisance shall, subject to any agreement to the
contrary, be recoverable by that person from the owner (as so defined) of the
mine.

Offences.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 129