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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 40

Provision of refuge holes.

40.(1) Subject to any exceptions for which provision may be made by
regulations, the manager of a mine shall not permit vehicles (not being
vehicles moved by hand) to run in any length of road in the mine unless there
are provided in that length of road (except in so much, if any, of it as is
within seventy-five feet of a working face served by it), at intervals not
greater than such as may be prescribed and in the prescribed positions, refuge
holes each of which is of such dimensions as may be prescribed and complies
with such other requirements as may be prescribed.

(2) Every refuge hole for the time being provided in a length of road in a
mine for the purpose of enabling the manager of the mine, without
contravention of subsection (1), to permit vehicles to run in that length of
road shall be kept free from obstruction.

(3) In this section the expression "working face" does not include a place in
a road at which ripping or work of repair is in progress.

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