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Stratified Ironstone Mines (Gunpowder) Act 1881

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Stratified Ironstone Mines (Gunpowder) Act, 1881

(44 & 45 Vict.) CHAPTER 26.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the use of Gunpowder in certain Stratified Ironstone Mines.

[11th August 1881]

Be 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:

S-1 Title of Act.

1 Title of Act.

1. This Act may be cited as theStratified Ironstone Mines (Gunpowder) Act, 1881.

S-2 Power to exempt ironstone mines from regulation as to cartridges under 35 & 36 Vict. c. 76. s. 51.

2 Power to exempt ironstone mines from regulation as to cartridges under 35 & 36 Vict. c. 76. s. 51.

(1)2. (1.) It shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, if he shall think fit, on the application of the owner, agent, or manager of any stratified ironstone mine in the lias formation, to exempt such mine from so much of the general rule eight in the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872, as forbids gunpowder or other explosives or inflammable substance from being taken into or being in the possession of any person in any mine except in cartridges.

(2) (2.) The application shall be transmitted by the owner, agent, or manager to the inspector of the district, and the requirements of sections fifty-three and fifty-seven of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872, as to the posting of any proposed special rule, shall extend to any such application: Provided that the exemption shall not come into force until granted by the Secretary of State.

(3) (3.) The Secretary of State may at any time revoke such exemption, but such revocation shall not come into force until written or printed notice thereof has been posted up at the mine for twenty-four hours.

(4) (4.) A list of the exemptions granted or revoked under this Act shall be set forth by the inspector of the district in his annual report.

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