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Prosecutions by Direction of the Secretary for Mines.
| Description of Defendant | Offence Charged | Result of Proceedings | Penalty | Costs | ||||
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| Mine: Shankhouse, Owners: Hartley Main Collieries Ltd. | ||||||||
| Owners | Sec. 36 (3) Failing to provide at least two ways affording means of egress from a part of the mine where ten or more persons were employed between 13th May and 10th July, 1937 |
Conviction | 15 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 0 |
| Agent | Sec. 36 (3) Failing to provide at least two ways affording means of egress from a part of the mine where ten or more persons were employed between 13th May and 10th July, 1937 |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Sec. 36 (3) Failing to provide at least two ways affording means of egress from a part of the mine where ten or more persons were employed between 13th May and 10th July, 1937 |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Owners | 3rd Schedule, Clause 2 Failing to provide properly constructed stables for horses underground on 6th May 1937 |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Agent | 3rd Schedule, Clause 2 Failing to provide properly constructed stables for horses underground on 6th May 1937 |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | 3rd Schedule, Clause 2 Failing to provide properly constructed stables for horses underground on 6th May 1937 |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Owners | 3rd Schedule, Clause 2 Failing to provide properly constructed stables for horses underground on 20th July, 1937 |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Agent | 3rd Schedule, Clause 2 Failing to provide properly constructed stables for horses underground on 20th July, 1937 |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | 3rd Schedule, Clause 2 Failing to provide properly constructed stables for horses underground on 20th July, 1937 |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Mine: Burradon, Owners: Hazlerigg & Burradon Coal Co. Ltd. | ||||||||
| Manager | Sec. 50(3) and (4) Failing to specify by notice the manner in which the supports were to be set and advanced, and the maximum intervals to be observed between the supports on roadways or parts of roadways, the roof or sides of which required to be supported |
Withdrawn on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Acting Manager | Sec. 49 Failing to provide that the roof and sides of a travelling road and working place in which persons travelled or worked were made secure |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Acting Manager | Sec. 50(3) Failing to provide that in all parts of a roadway the roof and sides of which required to be supported, such supports were set at such regular distances and in such manner as was specified in the notice posted at the mine |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mine: Boldon, Owners: Harton Coal Co. Ltd. | ||||||||
| Owners | Sec. 34(1)(iii) Unlawfully allowing a safety lamp to be unlocked in a part of the mine in which safety lamps are required to be used on 26th June 1937 |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Owners | Sec. 34(1)(iii) Unlawfully allowing a safety lamp to be unlocked in a part of the mine in which safety lamps are required to be used on 27th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Agent | Sec. 34(1)(iii) Unlawfully allowing a safety lamp to be unlocked in a part of the mine in which safety lamps are required to be used on 26th June 1937 |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Agent | Sec. 34(1)(iii) Unlawfully allowing a safety lamp to be unlocked in a part of the mine in which safety lamps are required to be used on 27th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Sec. 34(1)(iii) Unlawfully allowing a safety lamp to be unlocked in a part of the mine in which safety lamps are required to be used on 26th June 1937 |
Conviction | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Sec. 34(1)(iii) Unlawfully allowing a safety lamp to be unlocked in a part of the mine in which safety lamps are required to be used on 27th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Owners | Sec. 34(1)(iv) Allowing part of a safety lamp to be removed on 26th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Owners | Sec. 34(1)(iv) Allowing part of a safety lamp to be removed on 27th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Agent | Sec. 34(1)(iv) Allowing part of a safety lamp to be removed on 26th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Agent | Sec. 34(1)(iv) Allowing part of a safety lamp to be removed on 27th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Sec. 34(1)(iv) Allowing part of a safety lamp to be removed on 26th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Manager | Sec. 34(1)(iv) Allowing part of a safety lamp to be removed on 27th June 1937 |
Dismissed on payment of costs | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Mine: Adventure, Owners: Rainton Colliery Co. Ltd. | ||||||||
| Owners | General Regulation 106 (a) Failing to provide sanitary conveniences on the surface |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act on payment of costs | 11 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Agent | General Regulation 106 (a) Failing to provide sanitary conveniences on the surface |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act on payment of costs | ||||||
| Manager | General Regulation 106 (a) Failing to provide sanitary conveniences on the surface |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act on payment of costs | ||||||
| Owners | General Regulation 69 Failing to provide in connection with every ventilating fan driven by mechanical power a water-gauge and an automatic indicator registering the water-gauge |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act on payment of costs | 11 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Agent & Manager | General Regulation 69 Failing to provide in connection with every ventilating fan driven by mechanical power a water-gauge and an automatic indicator registering the water-gauge |
Dismissed under Probation of Offenders Act on payment of costs | 11 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Mine: Heworth, Owners: Heworth Coal Co. Ltd. | ||||||||
| Manager | Coal Mines (Employment of Boys) Act, 1937. Sec. 1 Unlawfully employing a boy (not being a boy lawfully employed in the mine underground prior to the passing of the Act) contrary to the notice affixed at the mine, on 6th November 1937 |
Conviction | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Under Manager | Coal Mines (Employment of Boys) Act, 1937. Sec. 1 Unlawfully employing a boy (not being a boy lawfully employed in the mine underground prior to the passing of the Act) contrary to the notice affixed at the mine, on 6th November 1937 |
Conviction | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
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- 1938 Mines Inspectors Report
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