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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 24

Limitation on number of persons to be employed at coal, &c., mines in places with single exits.

24.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, it shall not be lawful for
more than nine persons to be employed at any time below ground in a mine of
coal, stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay in a place from which there are
not two ways each of which

(a)leads to a different shaft or outlet, being a shaft or outlet provided for
affording to persons employed at that place means of ingress and egress;

(b)is entirely separate from the other;

(c)is traversable with safety and reasonable convenience;

(d)at each junction thereof with another way has clearly marked on it the
shaft or outlet to which it leads; and

(e)if it is so prescribed, is of a height or width, or height and width, not
less than such as may be prescribed;

(2) As respects a particular mine of coal, stratified ironstone, shale or
fireclay, provision may be made by regulations or by a notice served by
the Ministry on the manager of the mine

(a)for exempting the mine or any specified place therein from all or any of
the requirements of subsection (1);

(b)for directing that subsection (1) shall, in its application to the mine or
to any specified place therein, have effect with the substitution, for
references to nine persons, of references to such greater number of persons
(not exceeding thirty) as may be so specified in the regulations or notice;

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to the employment of persons in a
shaft or outlet.

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