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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 23

Communications between shafts and outlets in coal, &c., mines.

23.(1) So long as, in a mine of coal, stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay,
more than one shaft or outlet is available to any persons employed below
ground in the mine for affording to them means of ingress and egress, there
shall be provided and maintained between

(a)each entrance to each shaft or outlet that is available to those persons
for that purpose, being an entrance whereby those persons gain access to the
shaft or outlet from the workings; and

(b)some point or points on another shaft or outlet so available;

(2) The height of every communication provided in pursuance of subsection (1)
shall be maintained throughout at not less than five feet and the width of
every such communication shall be maintained throughout at not less than four
feet, except that

Para.(a) rep. by SR 1980/333

(b)if an inspector reports to the Ministry that he is satisfied that, owing to
special circumstances affecting a particular mine of coal, stratified
ironstone, shale or fireclay, it is inadvisable for reasons of safety or
unnecessary, in the case of all or any of the communications provided as
aforesaid therein, for the minimum height or width, or height and width,
thereof to be as great as provided by the foregoing provisions of this
subsection, the Ministry may, by notice served on the manager of the mine,
direct that those provisions shall have effect in their application to those
communications or to such of them as may be specified in the notice, with the
substitution, for the minimum specified in the said provisions in relation to
height, for that so specified in relation to width or for both of those
minima, as the case may be, of such less minimum or minima as may be specified
in the notice.


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