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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 8

Daily supervision by mine managers and under-managers.

8.(1) No mine shall be worked unless daily personal supervision thereover is
exercised by the manager thereof or, during any period during which he is
absent on leave or is prevented from exercising such supervision by sickness
or other cause beyond his control, by a person appointed by the owner of the
mine to exercise such supervision during any such period, being a person who
is or could be an under-manager of the mine without the working of the mine
thereby being rendered unlawful by or by virtue of section 6(5); but the
foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not authorise the working of a
mine by virtue of the exercise of daily personal supervision by a person other
than the manager thereof for any period exceeding seventy-two days (or such
longer period as the Ministry may allow).

(2) No such mine as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) of
section 6 (not being a mine with respect to which a direction under subsection
(2) of that section is in force) shall be worked unless daily personal
supervision is exercised by each under-manager thereof or, during any period
during which he is absent on leave or is prevented from exercising such
supervision by sickness or other cause beyond his control, by a person
appointed by the owner of the mine to exercise such supervision during any
such period, being a person who either is or could be an under-manager of the
mine without the working of the mine thereby being rendered unlawful by or by
virtue of section 6(5) or has such other qualifications as may be prescribed.

(3) A person appointed as mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) shall, so far as
regards any period during which he acts in exercise of his appointment, be
treated for the purposes of this Act, orders made thereunder and regulations
in all respects as if he were the manager of the mine to which the appointment
relates or, as the case may be, the under-manager thereof in whose place he is
acting, so, however, that nothing in the foregoing provisions of this
subsection shall be construed as divesting the manager or an under-manager of
a mine of any power, or relieving him from any duty or liability, conferred or
imposed on him by or by virtue of this Act.


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