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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 160

160.(1) Until such day as the Minister of Commerce and the Minister of Health
and Social Services may by order appoint the Office and Shop Premises Act
(Northern Ireland) 1966 shall continue to apply to colliery storage premises,
and accordingly, for the purposes of any provision of this Act which
corresponds to a provision of the said Act of 1966, section 156(2) shall have
effect as if any reference therein to so much of the surface as is occupied
together with a mine for the purpose of, or in connection with, the storage of
the minerals or products thereof gotten from the mine did not include a
reference to colliery storage premises.

(2) In subsection (1) "colliery storage premises" means fuel storage premises
(within the meaning of the said Act of 1966) which form part of premises
which, for the purposes of this Act, form part of a mine.

(3) As from the day appointed under subsection (1), section 1(3) of the said
Act of 1966 shall have effect as if

(a)in paragraph (a)(v) thereof, after the words "dock storage premises", there
were inserted the words "or colliery storage premises"; and

(b)after paragraph (d) there were inserted the following paragraph:

<"(f1tixtlf110f3f1lf40f5nbbw0261.(1) The provisions of Part XII shall have effect as if the provisions of the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1887, the Coal Mines (Check Weigher) Act 1894 and the Coal Mines (Weighing of Minerals) Act 1905 (which relate to check-weighing), and of the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908 (which relates to hours of work below ground), were included in this Act.


(2) Expressions used in the provisions of the said Acts to which meanings are
assigned by this Act for the purposes thereof shall have those meanings for
the purposes of the said provisions, and a person who is for the time being
treated for the purposes of this Act as the manager of a mine shall also be
treated for the purposes of the said Act of 1908 as the manager of that mine.

S.162, with Schedule 4, effects amendments. S.163, with Schedule 5, effects
repeals. S.164 rep. by SLR 1976; SR 1980/333

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