Amendment to section 74 of the Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 19693

1

For subsection (1) of section 74 of the Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 19694 there shall be substituted the following subsection—

1

It shall be the duty of the manager of every mine to ensure that, in connection with the getting, dressing and transporting of minerals below ground in the mine, the giving off of any dust that is inflammable is minimised.

2

In section 74(2) of the Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 1969, the words “or dust of such character and in such quantity as to be likely to be injurious to the persons employed” are hereby repealed.