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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 84

Air, gas and steam containers.

84.(1) All apparatus used as, or forming, part of the equipment of a mine,
being apparatus which contains or produces air, gas or steam at a pressure
greater than atmospheric pressure shall be so constructed, installed,
maintained and used as to obviate any risk from fire, bursting, explosion or
collapse or the production of noxious gases.

Subs.(2) rep. by SR 1980/333

(3) The Ministry may at any time require any such apparatus as aforesaid at a
mine to be examined by a person nominated by the Ministry and the manager of
the mine shall give the necessary facilities for the examination; and if, as a
result of the examination, it appears that any report of the result of an
examination of the apparatus (being a report made in pursuance of regulations
having effect by virtue of subsection (2)) was inadequate or inaccurate in a
material particular, the cost of the examination under this subsection shall
be recoverable summarily as a debt by the Ministry from the owner of the mine.

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