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Mines and Quarries Act 1954

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84 Air, gas and steam containers.E+W+S

(1)All apparatus used as, or forming, part of the equipment of a mine, being apparatus which contains or produces air, gas or steam at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure shall be so constructed, installed, maintained and used as to obviate any risk from fire, bursting, explosion or collapse or the production of noxious gases.

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(3)[F2The Health and Safety Executive] may at any time require any such apparatus as aforesaid at a mine to be examined by a person nominated by [F2the Executive] and the manager of the mine shall give the necessary facilities for the examination; and if, as a result of the examination, it appears that any report of the result of an examination of the apparatus (being a report made in pursuance of regulations having effect by virtue of the last foregoing subsection) was inadequate or inaccurate in a material particular, the cost of the examination under this subsection shall be recoverable by [F2the Health and Safety Executive] from the owner of the mine.

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F1Ss. 81(2), 84(2), 91(2), 92, 96, 104, 106, 112(3), 114, 129, 138, 141(1)—(4), 142, 144, 145 repealed by S.I. 1974/2013, Sch. 1 Pt. I

F2Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1974/2013, Sch. 2 para. 3

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