MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 17



17.(1) Provision may be made by regulations for requiring that, in the case of
every mine, the manager thereof shall keep at the office at the mine or at
such other place as may be approved by the Ministry

(a)accurate plans of

(i)all the workings in the mine (whether abandoned or not) or such of them as
may be prescribed; and

(ii)all other workings (whether abandoned or not) within the boundaries of the
mine or within the prescribed distance outside any boundary of the mine
(measured from any point on the boundary in a straight line on any plane) or
such of those workings as may be prescribed;

(b)accurate sections of the seams or veins for the time being worked in the
mine and of all the strata overlying them;

(2) Plans and sections required to be kept by virtue of subsection (1) shall
be of durable material and be prepared in such form and manner as may be
specified by rules made by the Ministry and on a scale not less than such as
may be so specified, and any such plans (other than any whereof the main
purpose is to show matters other than the extent of workings) shall show the
position, in relation to objects on the surface, of the workings delineated on
the plans and record such information as may be so specified with respect to
orientation, contours, boundaries, faults, workings other than those
delineated on the plans and any such other matters (whether similar to the
matters aforesaid or not) as may be so specified.

(3) If, in the case of any mine, an inspector reports to the Ministry that it
appears to him that any information which, by virtue of the foregoing
provisions of this section, is required to be recorded on a plan required to
be kept by the manager of the mine cannot be recorded thereon fully and
clearly, the Ministry may serve on the manager of the mine a notice requiring
him to keep at the office at the mine or at such other place as may be
approved by the Ministry such supplementary plan or drawing specified in the
notice as appears to the Ministry to be requisite for the purpose of recording
that information fully and clearly.

(4) Regulations may provide

(a)for requiring that plans, sections and drawings which by virtue of this
section are required to be kept in the case of a mine, or any prescribed class
thereof, shall be prepared by, or under the supervision of, the surveyor for
the mine;

(b)for requiring, with respect to any such plan, section or drawing as
aforesaid which has not been prepared by the surveyor for the mine, that the
surveyor or such other person as may be prescribed shall take the prescribed
steps for ensuring the accuracy thereof;

(c)for imposing upon the surveyor for a mine such duties as may be prescribed
with respect to

(i)the preservation and production of any prescribed documents, being
documents prepared for the purpose of, or in connection with, the preparation
or checking of any of the plans, sections and drawings which by virtue of this
section are required to be kept in the case of the mine; and

(ii)the recording of the identity of the person who prepared any such
document.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 17