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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 28

Provision of winding and haulage apparatus.

28.(1) Every shaft and unwalkable outlet for the time being provided at a mine
of coal, stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay for affording to persons
employed below ground therein means of ingress and egress shall be provided
with apparatus for carrying persons between the top of the shaft and the
entrances therefrom to the workings and between those entrances themselves or,
as the case may be, for carrying persons between the surface entrance to the
outlet and the entrances therefrom to the workings and between those entrances
themselves, being apparatus which complies with such requirements, if any, of
regulations as it appears to the Ministry requisite or expedient to impose for
securing the safety of persons when being carried by means thereof and whose
use is confined to the shaft or outlet, save where the Ministry in any
particular case, by notice served on the manager of the mine, consents to its
use not being so confined.

(2) Every shaft and unwalkable outlet for the time being provided at a mine
other than of coal, stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay for affording to
persons employed below ground therein means of ingress and egress, being a
shaft or outlet in the case of which the relevant distance exceeds one hundred
and fifty feet, shall be provided with apparatus for carrying persons between
the top of the shaft and the entrances therefrom to the workings and between
those entrances themselves or, as the case may be, for carrying persons
between the surface entrance to the outlet and the entrances therefrom to the
workings and between those entrances themselves, being apparatus which
complies with such requirements, if any, of regulations as it appears to
the Ministry requisite or expedient to impose for securing the safety of
persons when being carried by means thereof, and whose use is confined to the
shaft or outlet, save where the Ministry in any particular case, by notice
served on the manager of the mine, consents to its use not being so confined;
but the Ministry may by notice served on the manager of any such mine as is
mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this subsection exempt from those
provisions a shaft or outlet provided at that mine.

For the purposes of this subsection the expression "relevant distance" means,
in the case of a shaft, the distance between the top of the shaft and the
bottom of the lowest entrance to the shaft provided for affording to persons
access to the shaft and, in the case of an outlet, the distance between the
point at which the outlet reaches the surface and the underground entrance
provided for affording to persons access to the outlet which is furthest from
that point.

(3) All apparatus provided in pursuance of this section shall be properly
maintained and, when not in use, kept constantly available for use.

S.29 rep. by SR 1980/333

Securing of shafts and staple-pits.



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