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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 42

42.(1) No mechanically or gravity operated winding apparatus with which a mine
shaft or staple-pit is provided and no mechanically or
gravity operated rope haulage apparatus at a mine shall be operated on any
occasion when persons are carried by means thereof except by a competent male
person who has attained the age of twenty-two years appointed by the manager
of the mine to operate it on such an occasion; and accordingly it shall be the
duty of the manager of every mine to appoint such number, if any, of competent
male persons as may be sufficient to secure compliance with the foregoing
provisions of this subsection.

(2) It shall be the duty of the manager of every mine to and from which
persons gain ingress and egress by being carried through a shaft or
unwalkable outlet by means of mechanically or gravity operated winding or
rope haulage apparatus, or in which persons gain access to a part thereof by
being carried through a staple-pit by means of mechanically or
gravity operated winding apparatus, to make, and to secure the efficient
carrying out of, arrangements whereby, so long as any person is below ground
in the mine who it is intended should come out through that shaft, outlet or
staple-pit, a person appointed under this section is in attendance at the mine
for the purpose of operating the apparatus aforesaid provided for carrying
persons through that shaft or outlet or, as the case may be, that staple-pit.

(3) The Ministry may serve on the manager of a mine a notice requiring him to
secure that, at such times as may be specified in the notice, a person who, in
pursuance of arrangements made under subsection (2), is in attendance at the
mine is not charged with the duty of operating more than one set of
mechanically or gravity operated winding or rope haulage apparatus.

(4) ..., no person appointed under this section shall be employed at a mine of
coal, stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay for more than eight hours in any
day on which his duties consist of, or include, the operation, when persons
are carried by means thereof, of mechanically or
gravity operated winding apparatus with which a shaft is provided, ....

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