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MINES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 67

Prohibition of taking into certain mines and parts of mines of articles producing flames or sparks.

67.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no article designed or
adapted to produce an unprotected flame or an unprotected spark shall be taken
or used below ground in a safety-lamp mine or taken into, or used in, a
safety-lamp part of a mine.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as prohibiting

(a)the taking into, or use in, a mine or part of a mine of any article in
accordance with this Act or regulations;

(b)the taking into, or use in, a mine of any class or part of a mine of any
class of an article of a description authorised by order of the Ministry to be
used in a mine of that class;

(c)the taking into, or use in, a mine or part of a mine of an article of a
description authorised in writing by the Ministry to be used in that mine or,
as the case may be, that part of that mine.

S.68 rep. by SR 1980/333

Blasting materials and devices.

© 1969 Crown Copyright

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