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COAL MINES REGULATION ACT 1887 - SECT 12



12.(1) Where the amount of wages paid to any of the persons employed in a mine
depends on the amount of mineral gotten by them, those persons shall be paid
according to the actual weight gotten by them of the mineral contracted to be
gotten, and the mineral gotten by them shall be truly weighed at a place as
near to the pit mouth as is reasonably practicable.

Provided that nothing in this section shall preclude the owner ... or manager
of the mine from agreeing with the persons employed in the mine that
deductions shall be made in respect of stones or substances other than the
mineral contracted to be gotten, which shall be sent out of the mine with the
mineral contracted to be gotten, or in respect of any tubs, baskets, or
hutches being improperly filled in those cases where they are filled by the
getter of the mineral or his drawer, or by the person immediately employed by
him; such deductions being determined in such special mode as may be agreed
upon between the owner... or manager of the mine on the one hand, and the
persons employed in the mine on the other, or by some person appointed in that
behalf by the owner... or manager, or (if any check weigher is stationed for
this purpose as herein-after mentioned), by such person and such check
weigher, or in case of difference by a third person to be mutually agreed on
by the owner... or manager of the mine on the one hand, and the persons
employed in the mine on the other, or in default of agreement appointed by a
chairman of a court of quarter sessions within the jurisdiction of which any
shaft of the mine is situate.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1969 c.6 (NI) s.163 sch.5

(3) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of a Secretary of State, in the
case of any mine or class of mines employing not more than thirty persons
underground, to be expedient that the persons employed therein should, upon
the joint representation of the owner or owners of any such mine or class of
mines and the said persons, be paid by any method other than that provided by
this Act, such Secretary of State may, if he think fit, by order allow the
same either without conditions or during the time and on the conditions
specified in the order.


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