Coal Mines Regulation (Amendment) Act 1917
1917 Chapter 8
An Act to extend section four of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, to Mines other than Coal Mines.
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
1Extension of s.4 of the Act of 1908 to mines other than coal mines.
Section four, of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, which authorises the suspension of that Act as respects coal mines in the event of war and other emergencies, shall extend to all mines to which the other provisions of that Act apply in like manner as it extends to coal mines, and accordingly in that section after the words " demand for coal " there shall be inserted the words " or for the product of any other mines to which this Act applies " and for the words " coal mines " wherever they occur there shall be substituted the word " mines. "
2Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Coal Mines Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1917, and the Coal Mines Acts, 1887 to 1914, and this Act may be cited together as the Coal Mines Acts, 1887 to 1917.