MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 31 Safety precautions with respect to entrances to shafts, staple-pits and outlets.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 31

Safety precautions with respect to entrances to shafts, staple-pits and outlets.

31.(1) The surface entrance to every mine shaft and every other entrance
thereto (whether above or below ground), and every entrance to every
staple-pit, shall be provided with an efficient enclosure or barrier so
designed and constructed as to prevent any person from accidentally falling
down the shaft or staple-pit or accidentally coming into contact with a moving
part of any winding apparatus with which the shaft or staple-pit is provided.

(2) Every enclosure or barrier provided in pursuance of subsection (1) shall
be properly maintained and, where an enclosure or barrier so provided or any
part thereof is removable or openable, the enclosure, barrier or part shall be
kept securely in position or, as the case may be, securely closed save in so
far as its removal or opening is necessary for the purpose of the use of the
shaft or staple-pit in connection with which it is provided, the doing of work
in the shaft or staple-pit or the inspection of, or of anything in, the shaft
or staple-pit.

Subs.(3) rep. by SR 1980/333

(4) For the purposes of this section so much of any superstructure provided at
the top of a shaft as forms an extension thereof shall be deemed to form part
of the shaft.

(5) This section shall not apply to a shaft or outlet of, or staple-pit in, an
abandoned mine or a mine which has not been worked for a period of twelve
months, but, save as aforesaid, shall apply as well to shafts, outlets and
staple-pits which are not in use as to shafts, outlets and staple-pits which
are in use.

S.32 rep. by SR 1980/333

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 31