MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 62 Permitted lights.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 62

Permitted lights.

62.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no lamps or lights other
than permitted lights shall be allowed or used below ground in a mine of coal
first opened on or after the date of the commencement of this Act.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, no lamps or lights other than
permitted lights shall be allowed or used below ground in a mine (whether of
coal or of any other mineral) first opened before the said date, being either

(a)a mine in the case of which, immediately before that date, the use below
ground therein of lamps or lights, other than locked safety-lamps or some
other means of lighting the use of which below ground therein was authorised
by or under the enactments repealed by this Act, was unlawful or would have
been unlawful but for an exemption then in force; or

(b)a mine (other than as aforesaid) in the case of which locked safety-lamps
were being used below ground therein immediately before that date otherwise
than by way of temporary precaution.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this section, no lamps or lights other than
permitted lights shall, in the case of a mine (whether of coal or of any other
mineral) first opened before the said date (not being a mine to which
subsection (2) applies) or of a mine other than of coal first opened on or
after the said date, be allowed or used below ground after

(a)the occurrence in any part of the mine below ground of an ignition or
explosion of gas naturally present in the mine (whether or not causing death
or bodily injury); or

(b)the introduction of the use, in any part of the mine below ground, of
locked safety-lamps otherwise than by way of temporary precaution; or

Para.(c) rep. by SR 1980/333

Subs.(4) rep. by SR 1980/333

(5) If an inspector reports to the Ministry that he is satisfied with respect
to a mine or a part of a mine that, by reason of the special character of the
mine or part, compliance with the requirements of the foregoing provisions of
this section is unnecessary, the Ministry may, by notice served on the manager
of the mine, exempt the mine or part from those provisions; but no exemption
from the said provisions of a part of a mine of coal shall be granted after
the expiration of the period of five years beginning with the commencement of
this Act or shall be granted or renewed before the expiration of that period
otherwise than so as to expire not later than the expiration of that period.

S.63 rep. by SR 1980/333

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 62