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Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845

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73 Mining communications.U.K.

If the working of any minerals is prevented under this Act by reason of a counter-notice, a mine owner whose minerals extend so as to lie on both sides of the specified minerals may cut and make such airways, headways, gateways, or water levels through the specified minerals and the strata above or below the same or any of them as may be requisite to enable him to ventilate, drain, and work his remaining minerals; but no such airway, headway, gateway, or water level shall be cut or made upon or so as to injure any part of the protected works, or within forty yards of any other airway, headway, gateway, or water level, nor shall the same without the consent of the company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) be greater than eight feet wide and eight feet high, unless the top of the same is more than one hundred and sixty yards below the average rail level of the protected works, or, if the top exceeds that distance, than thirteen feet wide and eight feet high.

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C1S. 73 incorporated (S.) (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 8, ss. 188(2), 278(2)

S. 73 applied (with modifications) (S.) (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 9, ss. 47(2)(3), 83(2) (with s. 45(4))

S. 73 incorporated (S.) (17.7.1995) by 1994 c. 39, s. 98(2)(a); S.I. 1995/1898, art. 2

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