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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 56

Avoidance of danger from gas in waste.

56.(1) This section applies to waste other than

(a)waste which is

(i)stopped off in a prescribed manner or in such other manner as may be
approved by the Ministry by notice served on the manager of the mine in which
it is contained; or

(ii)stowed up; or

(b)waste, other than as aforesaid, with respect to which it is known that
there is therein

(i)no inflammable gas; and

(ii)either no noxious gas or no noxious gas in a dangerous concentration.

(2) It shall be the duty of the manager of every mine which contains any waste
to which this section applies to secure either

(a)that there is constantly produced in that waste ventilation adequate for
the purposes mentioned in section 55(1); or

(b)that appropriate steps are taken for the purpose of minimising dangerous
emissions from that waste of inflammable or noxious gas.

(3) Subsection (2) of section 55 shall, with any requisite modifications,
apply for the purposes of subsection (2)(a) as it applies for the purposes of
subsection (1) of that section.

S.57 rep. by SR 1980/333


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