Volume 1

The law relating to safety and health.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Power
Date:
1957-58 [v. 1, 1958]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The law relating to safety and health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An Act to make fresh provision with respect to the management and control of mines and quarries and for securing the safety, health and welfare of persons employed thereat; to regulate the employment thereat of women and young persons; to require the fencing of abandoned and disused mines and of quarries; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. [25th November, 1954] E it enacted by the Queen’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: PART I GENERAL DuTIES OF MINE . . . OWNERS 1. (1) It shall be the duty of the owner of every mine . . . to make such financial and other provision and take such other steps as may be necessary to secure— (a) that the mine . . . is managed and worked in accordance with the provisions in that behalf of this Act, orders made thereunder and regu- lations and is so planned and laid out as to enable that purpose to be readily secured; and (6) that all other provisions of this Act, orders made thereunder and regu- lations and all requirements imposed under this Act, orders made there- under and regulations are, so far as applicable to the mine . . . duly complied with; and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing words» to give, to any person appointed by him for the purpose of securing the fulfilment» in relation to the mine . . . , of statutory responsibilities of his with respect to any matters, written instructions defining the matters with respect to which that person is charged with securing the fulfilment of those responsibilities. (2) Forthwith after the giving by the owner of a mine . . . to a person appointed by him for the purpose aforesaid, of such instructions as aforesaid, the owner shall send a copy of the instructions to the inspector for the district and to the manager of the mine . . . ParT II | MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL Managers and Under-managers 2. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this Act, no mine shall be worked unless there is a sole manager of the mine, being an individual duly appointed and having such qualifications (if any) as are required by or by virtue of the said provisions. } (2) The manager of a mine shall have the management and control of the mine, exercisable subject to any instructions given to him by or on behalf of the owner thereof, and shall also—
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