MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 45 Signalling in shafts and outlets.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 45

Signalling in shafts and outlets.

45.(1) There shall be provided and maintained

(a)in connection with every mine shaft provided with winding apparatus, being
a shaft in the case of which the distance between the highest and lowest
entrances thereto for the time being in use exceeds fifty feet, effective
means of transmitting audible and visible signals from each entrance to the
shaft for the time being in use to the place at which the winding apparatus is
operated;

(b)in connection with every unwalkable outlet at a mine, being an outlet which
is provided with rope haulage apparatus and in the case of which the distance
between the terminal surface entrance thereto and the
terminal underground entrance thereto exceeds fifty feet, effective means of
transmitting audible and visible signals from each entrance to the outlet for
the time being in use to the place at which the haulage apparatus is operated;

Subs.(2) rep. by SR 1980/333

(3) For the purposes of this section

(a)so much of any superstructure provided at the top of a mine shaft as forms
an extension thereof shall be deemed to form part of the shaft, and so much of
a line of rails running through an outlet as lies between the point at which
the outlet reaches the surface and the surface terminus of the line shall be
deemed to form part of the outlet;

(b)the expression "entrance", in relation to an outlet, includes any place at
which vehicles stop for the purpose of loading or unloading; and

(c)the expressions "terminal surface entrance" and "terminal underground
entrance", in relation to an outlet, mean, respectively, the surface entrance
thereto or, if there is more than one, that one for the time being in use
which is furthest from the point at which the outlet reaches the surface and
the underground entrance thereto for the time being in use which is furthest
from that point.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 45