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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 41

Safety measures relating to use of vehicles.

41.(1) So long as vehicles are used in a mine, there shall be provided,
maintained and used, either in the mine or on the vehicles or both in the mine
and on the vehicles, such safety devices as are necessary to prevent the
occurrence of accidents likely to cause bodily injury to persons, being
accidents caused by vehicles so used running away; and every device provided
in pursuance of this subsection shall be of a kind designed to assume
automatically the position in which it operates for the purpose for which it
is designed, save in a case where there is good reason for not providing a
device of that kind.

(2) In addition to the provision, in pursuance of subsection (1), of such
safety devices as are therein mentioned, there shall be taken, as respects a
person who, otherwise than as a matter of routine, is at work at a place in a
mine through which vehicles are running or are accustomed to run, such steps
as are necessary to protect him from bodily injury in the event of a vehicle's
running away while he is at work at that place.

Charge of winding and rope haulage apparatus when persons are carried.



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