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Mines and Quarries Act 1954

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138Periodical returns by owners

(1)It shall be the duty of every owner of mines or quarries if directed so to do by the Minister, to furnish to him, within such period and in such form and manner as may be specified in the directions, such returns and statistics relating to the mines or quarries which he owns, and such other information (if any) relating thereto, as may be so specified.

(2)No returns, statistics or other information obtained under the foregoing subsection shall, without the consent in writing of the person carrying on the undertaking to which the returns, statistics or other information relate, be disclosed except—

(a)with the consent of the Minister, to a government department for the purposes of the exercise by them of any of their functions ; or

(b)in the form of a summary of similar returns, statistics or other information furnished by a number of owners of mines or quarries, being a summary so framed as not to enable particulars relating to the undertaking of a particular person to be ascertained therefrom; or

(c)for the purposes of any proceedings for an offence under this Act or any report of any such proceedings.

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