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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 65

Offences relating to safety-lamps.

65.(1) A person who damages, destroys or loses or suffers to be damaged,
destroyed or lost a safety-lamp given out to him at a mine shall be guilty of
an offence.

(2) In any proceedings taken against a person in respect of an offence under
subsection (1) with respect to a safety-lamp, it shall be a defence for him to
prove that he took reasonable steps for the care and preservation of the lamp
and that, immediately after the occurrence of the damage, destruction or loss,
as the case may be, he notified an official of the mine of its occurrence.

(3) A person who tampers with a safety-lamp given out to him at a mine shall
be guilty of an offence.

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