[F135 Height and width of travelling roads.E+W+S
(1)Every length of road in a mine which is used at the beginning or end of a shift by not less than ten persons for the purpose of walking to or from their working places in the mine, being a length made after the commencement of this Act, shall be not less than [F21.7 metres] high throughout:
Provided that—
(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
(b)an inspector may, by notice served on the manager of a particular mine, exempt from those provisions any such length of road as aforesaid in that mine or any part of any such length of road.
(2)—(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 22–25, 33–35 repealed (1.4.1989, in part, and 1.4.1994, fully) by S.I. 1988/1729, regs. 1(1), 12(1)(a)
F2Words substituted by S.I. 1976/2063, reg. 3(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II except as to shafts sunk, or as the case may be, lengths of road made before 1.2.1977
F3S. 35(1)(a) repealed by S.I. 1974/2013, Sch. 1 Pt. I
F4Ss. 34(2), 35(2)—(4) repealed by S.I. 1975/1102, Sch. 1