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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 87

Safe means of access and safe means of employment.

87.(1) There shall be provided and maintained safe means of access to every
place in or on a building or structure on the surface of a mine, being a place
at which any person has at any time to work.

(2) Where a person is to work at any such place as aforesaid from which he
will be liable to fall a distance of more than six and a half feet, then,
unless the place is one which affords secure foothold and, where necessary,
secure hand-hold, means shall be provided by fencing or otherwise for ensuring
his safety.

Restriction on doing of work by unskilled persons.



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