MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 54 Provisions as to support rules.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 54

Provisions as to support rules.

54.(1) Rules made under or by virtue of any of the foregoing provisions of
this Act relating to support are hereafter in this Act referred to as "support
rules".

(2) Support rules with respect to a mine shall comply with such requirements
with respect to the form thereof and the matters to be specified therein as
may be prescribed, and may impose upon persons employed at the mine such
duties and prohibitions as it appears to the manager of the mine requisite or
expedient to impose on them for securing compliance with any requirement
imposed by or by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this Part relating to
support.

(3) If, with respect to any support rules for the time being in force with
respect to a mine, an inspector reports to the Ministry that he is of opinion
that the rules require modification in any particular, the Ministry may serve
on the manager of the mine a notice specifying the rules and the particular in
which they require modification and the nature of the modification that ought
to be made, and requiring the manager, before the expiration of such period
beginning with the date on which the notice becomes operative as may be
specified therein, to modify the rules in accordance with the tenor of the
notice.

The provisions of Part XIII with respect to references upon notices served by
the Ministry shall apply to a notice served under this subsection.

(4) A support rule which is inconsistent with the provisions of any regulation
shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be of no effect.

(5) A copy of all support rules for the time being in force with respect to a
mine shall be kept at the office at the mine or at such other place as may be
approved by the Ministry and where, by virtue of paragraph (d) of subsection
(1) of section 12, districts are delimited in a mine for the purpose of the
discharge of their duties by persons appointed for the purpose of fulfilling
the requirements imposed with respect to the mine by virtue of paragraph (a)
of that subsection, a copy of so much of the said rules as relates to each
district shall be supplied by the manager of the mine to the person so
appointed who is in charge of the district and shall be kept posted at the
entrance to the district in such characters and in such a position as to be
easily seen and read by the persons employed in the district.

(6) It shall be the duty of the manager of every mine with respect to which
support rules are for the time being in force to supply to every person
employed at the mine whose duties consist of, or include, the setting of
supports in accordance with a system specified in the rules, a document
explaining either verbally or diagrammatically, or partly in the one way and
partly in the other the effect of the rules so far as they concern him.

(7) A document purporting to be certified by the manager of a mine to be a
true copy of any support rules for the time being in force with respect to the
mine shall be receivable in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved,
be deemed to be such a copy.

Duty to provide adequate ventilation.

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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 54