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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 25

Limitation on number of persons to be employed at coal, &c., mines in shafts and outlets and their insets.

25.(1) It shall not be lawful for a number of persons greater than the
permitted number to be employed at any time at a mine of coal, stratified
ironstone, shale or fireclay in a shaft or outlet; but, in relation to an
outlet (not being an unwalkable outlet), this subsection shall not apply to
any part thereof lying between the surface entrance thereto and any point
therein from which a communication leads to another outlet or to a shaft,
being an outlet or shaft available to persons employed in the said part for
affording to them means of ingress and egress.

(2) For the purposes of this section

(a)the permitted number, in relation to a shaft or outlet, shall be twenty or
such greater number (not exceeding thirty) as may be determined by
the Ministry by notice served on the manager of the mine;

(b)the insets of a shaft or outlet shall be deemed to form part of the shaft
or outlet; and

(c)subsection (6) of section 22 shall apply as it applies for the purposes of
that section.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prejudicing the operation of
section 24 in relation to the employment of persons in individual insets of a
shaft or outlet.

Ss. 26, 27 rep. by SR 1980/333

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