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Prosecutions by Direction of the Secretary for Mines.

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Description of Defendant Offence Charged Result of Proceedings Penalty Costs
      £ s. d. £ s. d.
 
1931
 
Agent 
Section 68 : Unlawfully was guilty of an offence against this Section in that a working place had approached within 40 yards of disused workings (not being workings which had been examined, etc.), the workings having exceeded 8 feet in width, and failure to provide advance and flank bore-holes
Dealt with under Probation of Offenders Act 1907, Sec. 1 (I). Conviction recorded and ordered to pay costs        17  6  6 
Manager 
Section 68 : Unlawfully was guilty of an offence against this Section in that a working place had approached within 40 yards of disused workings (not being workings which had been examined, etc.), the workings having exceeded 8 feet in width, and failure to provide advance and flank bore-holes
Dealt with under Probation of Offenders Act 1907, Sec. 1 (I). Conviction recorded and ordered to pay costs        17  6  6 
 
1933
 
Manager 
Section 48: Failing to provide some proper means of communicating distinct and definite signals between all regular stopping places and the ends of the road
Conviction  0  5  0  11  10  0 
Under Manager 
General Regulation 41 : Failing to enforce to the best of his power the provisions of Section 48, Coal Mines Aact 1911
Conviction  0  5  0  11  10  0 
Manager 
Section 44 (1): Failing to provide sufficient refuge holes at intervals of not more than ten yards
Conviction  0  5  0       
Under Manager 
General Regulation 41 : Failing to enforce to the best of his power the provisions of Section 44 (1), Coal Mines Aact 1911
Conviction  0  5  0       

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  • 1931 Mines Inspectors Report
  • 1933 Mines Inspectors Report

 

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