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Prosecutions by Direction of the Secretary for Mines.

Walbottle Percy

Description of Defendant Offence Charged Result of Proceedings Penalty Costs
      £ s. d. £ s. d.
 
1933
 
Owner 
Sections 14, 64 & 101(2): Failing to appoint in writing a competant person as fireman, examiner or deputy to make inspections and a full and accurate report
Conviction  5  0  0       
Manager 
Sections 14, 64 & 101(2): Failing to appoint in writing a competant person as fireman, examiner or deputy to make inspections and a full and accurate report
Conviction  5  0  0       
Owner 
Sections 63, 64(1) & (3): Allowing workmen to pass beyond a station before a part of the mine beyond that station had been examined and reported to be safe
Conviction  5  0  0       
Manager 
Sections 63, 64(1) & (3): Allowing workmen to pass beyond a station before a part of the mine beyond that station had been examined and reported to be safe
Conviction  5  0  0       
Owner 
Section 65: Failing to see that an inspection by a fireman, examiner or deputy was not made twice at least in the course of each shift of all parts of the mine beyond a meeting station, and to record a report of the last such inspection in a book
Conviction  5  0  0       
Manager 
Section 65: Failing to see that an inspection by a fireman, examiner or deputy was not made twice at least in the course of each shift of all parts of the mine beyond a meeting station, and to record a report of the last such inspection in a book
Conviction  5  0  0       
Owner 
Section 80(1) & (4): Failure of forthwith send the prescribed notice of an accident caused by an explosion of gas
Conviction  10  0  0  28  5  0 
Manager 
Section 80(1) & (4): Failure of forthwith send the prescribed notice of an accident caused by an explosion of gas
Conviction  10  0  0       
Owner 
Section 80(1) & (4): Failure of forthwith send the prescribed notice of an accident caused by an explosion of gas
Conviction  10  0  0  28  5  0 
Manager 
Section 80(1) & (4): Failure of forthwith send the prescribed notice of an accident caused by an explosion of gas
Conviction  10  0  0       
Owner 
Section 32(1)(b): Allowing lamps or lights other than locked safety lamps to be used in a seam in which an explosion of inflammable gas, causing peronal injury had occurred
Conviction  5  0  0       
Manager 
Section 32(1)(b): Allowing lamps or lights other than locked safety lamps to be used in a seam in which an explosion of inflammable gas, causing peronal injury had occurred
Conviction  5  0  0       

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  • 1933 Mines Inspectors Report

 

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