MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 12



12.(1) Provision may be made by regulations

(a)for imposing, in relation to a mine, such requirements with respect to the
carrying out, by competent persons appointed for the purpose by the manager of
the mine and having such qualifications, if any, as may be prescribed, of
inspections of the mine as it may appear to the Ministry requisite or
expedient to impose for the purpose of securing the safety and health of the
workmen employed thereat;

(b)for providing that, subject to any exceptions for which provision may be
made by the regulations, the persons appointed to discharge at a mine the
duties imposed by virtue of paragraph (a) shall have the immediate charge of
the workmen employed at the mine and of the operations carried on by them
thereat;

(c)for prescribing any duties to be discharged by the persons so appointed in
addition to those imposed on them by virtue of paragraphs (a) and (b) or by or
by virtue of any of the following provisions of this Act, and for requiring
that, subject to any exceptions for which provision may be made by the
regulations, those persons shall devote the whole of their time to the
discharge of the duties prescribed by virtue of this paragraph or imposed as
aforesaid; and

(d)for requiring or authorising the delimitation in a mine of districts for
the purpose of the discharge by the persons so appointed of their duties, for
requiring that where, in a mine, districts are delimited for that purpose no
one of those persons shall have charge of more than one district and for
relating to each district the duties of the person in charge of it;

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

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 12