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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 75

75.(1) In the case of every mine, the owner thereof and the manager thereof
shall each be charged with the duty

(a)of taking such steps as may be necessary for securing that he is at all
material times in possession of all information which indicates or tends to
indicate the presence or absence, in the vicinity of any workings carried on
or proposed to be carried on in the mine, of

(i)any disused workings (whether mine workings or not);

(ii)any rock or stratum containing or likely to contain water (whether
dispersed or in natural cavities);

<(iii)any peat, moss, sand, gravel, silt or other material that is likely to flow when wet; and


(b)of taking such steps as may be necessary for the purpose of substantiating
any such information which comes into his possession (whether in consequence
of the discharge of the duty imposed upon him by paragraph (a) or not).

(2) In the case of every mine, the owner thereof and the manager thereof shall
each be charged with the duty

(a)forthwith after any such information as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of
subsection (1) comes into his possession (whether in consequence of the
discharge of the duty imposed upon him by that paragraph or not), of
furnishing to the other particulars of the information; and

(b)forthwith after taking any steps in discharge of the duty imposed upon him
by paragraph (b) of subsection (1), of furnishing to the other particulars of
the steps taken and of any conclusion reached as a result of taking them.

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