[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Search] [Feedback]
	Northern Irish Legislation
You are here:  BAILII >> Databases >> Northern Irish Legislation >> MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 74

74.(1) It shall be the duty of the manager of every mine to ensure that, in
connection with the getting, dressing and transporting of minerals below
ground in the mine, the giving off of

(a)any dust that is inflammable; and

(b)dust of such character and in such quantity as to be likely to be injurious
to the persons employed;

(2) Where, in connection with the carrying on of any operations or process
below ground in a mine or in a building on the surface of a mine, there is
given off any dust that is inflammable or dust of such character and in such
quantity as to be likely to be injurious to the persons employed, it shall be
the duty of the manager of the mine to ensure

(a)that the entry of the dust into the air or its accumulation in any place in
circumstances in which its accumulation in that place might be dangerous or
harmful is minimised by means of steps in that behalf taken as near as
possible to the point of origin of the dust;

(b)that any of the dust which enters the air is trapped or so dispersed as to
render it harmless; and

(c)that any of the dust which is not prevented from accumulating in a place in
circumstances in which its accumulation in that place might be dangerous or
harmful is either systematically cleaned up and removed to a place where it
cannot be dangerous or harmful or treated in manner approved by the Ministry
for the purpose of rendering it harmless.

Subs.(3) rep. by SR 1980/333

Duty of mine owners and managers to seek evidence of proximity of disused
workings, water-bearing strata, &c.

© 1969 Crown Copyright

BAILII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback
URL: http://www.bailii.org/nie/legis/num_act/mai1969236/s74.html