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MINING INDUSTRY ACT 1920

MINING INDUSTRY ACT 1920 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the better administration of mines, and to
regulate the coal industry, and for other purposes connected with
the mining industry and the persons employed therein.{1}
[16th August 1920]
PART I$$A

MINING INDUSTRY ACT 1920 - SECT 2
General powers and duties.

2.(1) ... there shall, ... be transferred to the Board of Trade
all the powers of a Secretary of State under enactments relating to
mines and quarries.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1945 c.19 (8 & 9 Geo.6) s.7 sch.3

(3) The Board of Trade shall undertake the collection, preparation,
and publication of information and statistics relating to the mining
industry, and shall co-operate with such Committees of the Privy
Council as are formed for the purpose, and any other Government
departments concerned, in the initiation and direction of research in
relation to matters connected with the powers and duties of the
Board of Trade.

Subs.(4)(7) rep. by SLR 1953

Schemes as to drainage.

MINING INDUSTRY ACT 1920 - SECT 18

18.(1) It shall be lawful for the Board of Trade after... holding
such other inquiry as they may think fit, to make schemes with
respect to any group of mines as to the drainage thereof, and as
to the apportionment as between the owners of the mines in question
of any expenditure for a common purpose that may be required by
any such scheme, and any such scheme may amend or repeal any local
Act of Parliament in connection with such drainage.

(2) For this purpose the Board of Trade may adopt with or without
modifications any scheme relating to the drainage of any group of
mines proposed by all or any of the owners of such mines.

[(3) The provisions of Parts I and III of Schedule 2 to the Mines
Act (Northern Ireland) 1969, shall, with the necessary modifications,
have effect with respect to the procedure for making a scheme under
this section as they have effect with respect to the procedure for
making general regulations under that Act.

(4) Any scheme made under this section which amends or repeals a
local Act of Parliament shall be subject to negative resolution.]

S.19 rep. by 1969 c.6 (NI) s.163 sch.5. S.21 rep. by 1953 c.14
(NI) s.1(2); 1969 c.6 (NI) s.163 sch.5

MINING INDUSTRY ACT 1920 - SECT 22
Power to hold inquiries.

22.(1) The Board of Trade may hold such inquiries as they consider
necessary or desirable for the purposes of this Act, and the Board
of Trade and, if authorised by the Board of Trade, the person
appointed to hold any such inquiry, may, by order, require any
person, subject to the payment or tender of the reasonable expenses
of his attendance, to attend as a witness and give evidence, or to
produce any documents in his possession or power which relate to
any matter in question at the inquiry, and are such as would be
subject to production in a court of law, and, if any person fails
without reasonable excuse to comply with any of the provisions of
any such order, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding five pounds, and the person holding the inquiry shall
have power to take evidence on oath and for that purpose to
administer oaths.

(2) Notices of inquiries may be given and published in accordance
with such general or special directions as the Board of Trade may
give.

(3) The powers of the Board of Trade under this section shall be
in addition to and not in derogation of any powers of holding
inquiries transferred to the Board from any other Government
department under this Act.

MINING INDUSTRY ACT 1920 - SECT 23
Inter-departmental arrangements.

23. The Board of Trade and any other Government department may make
arrangements for the exercise and performance by such other
Government department or by the Board of Trade of any of the
powers and duties of the Board of Trade or such other Government
department relating to mines and the mining industry which appear to
them to be such as could be more conveniently so exercised and
performed, and in such case such other Government department and
their officers, or the Board of Trade and their officers, as the
case may be, shall have all the powers and duties for such purpose
as are exerciseable by the Board of Trade and their officers or
such other department and their officers.

S.24 rep. by SLR 1927

MINING INDUSTRY ACT 1920 - SECT 25
Interpretation.

25. For the purposes of this Act, unless the context otherwise
requires,

Definitions rep. by SLR (NI) 1954; 1969 c.6 (NI) s.163 sch.5

The expressions "mines" and "mining industry" include, respectively,
quarries and the quarrying industry:

Definition rep. by SLR (NI) 1954

MINING INDUSTRY ACT 1920 - SECT 26
Short title.

26. This Act may be cited as the Mining Industry Act, 1920.

First Schedule rep. by SLR 1953. Second Schedule rep. by SLR 1927