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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 76

Duty of mine owners and managers to ascertain thickness of strata between workings and surface water.

76.(1) It shall be the duty both of the owner and of the manager of every mine
to take, with respect to any workings carried on or proposed to be carried on
in the mine in the vicinity of the sea, a lake or river or any other body of
surface water (whether accumulated naturally or artificially) such steps as
may be necessary for ascertaining the total thickness of the strata lying
between the workings and the surface water.

(2) In the case of every mine, the owner thereof and the manager thereof shall
each be charged with the duty, forthwith after obtaining any information in
consequence of the discharge of the duty imposed upon him by subsection (1),
of furnishing to the other particulars of the information obtained.

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