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COAL MINES (WEIGHING OF MINERALS) ACT 1905 - SECT 1

1.(1) The power conferred by the principal Act on the persons employed in a
mine, and paid according to the weight of the mineral gotten by them, to
appoint a check weigher, shall include power to appoint a deputy to act in the
absence of the check weigher for reasonable cause, and the expression "check
weigher," when used in the principal Act and in this Act, shall include any
such deputy check weigher during such absence as aforesaid.

(2) A statutory declaration, made by the person who presided at a meeting for
the purpose of appointing a check weigher or deputy check weigher, to the
effect that he presided at that meeting, and that the person named in the
declaration was duly appointed check weigher or deputy check weigher, as the
case may be, by that meeting, shall be forthwith delivered to the owner, ...,
or manager of the mine, and shall be prima facie evidence of that appointment.

(3) Where the check weigher or deputy check weigher was appointed by a
majority, ascertained by ballot, of the persons employed in the mine, and paid
according to the mineral gotten, the declaration shall so state, and, if he
was not so appointed, then it shall state the names of the persons by whom or
on whose behalf the check weigher or deputy check weigher was appointed. Where
a check weigher or deputy check weigher is appointed by such a majority as
aforesaid, he shall be deemed to be appointed on behalf of all the persons
employed in the mine who are entitled to appoint him.

(4) The facilities to be afforded to a check weigher, under section thirteen
of the principal Act, shall include provision for a check weigher of a shelter
from the weather, containing the number of cubic feet requisite for two
persons, a desk or table at which the check weigher may write, and a
sufficient number of weights to test the weighing machine.

(5) When a check weigher or deputy check weigher is appointed by a majority,
ascertained by ballot, of the persons employed in the mine, and paid according
to the mineral gotten, he shall not be removed by the persons employed in the
mine except by a majority, ascertained by ballot, of the persons employed and
paid as aforesaid at the time of the removal.

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