Explanatory note

This order is made under the Mines and Quarries Act, 1954, s. 190, which empowers the Minister of Fuel and Power to re-enact (to the extent to which they could be enacted in regulations made under the Act and subject to modifications of the kind specified in that section) the provisions of regulations and enactments which will cease to have effect at the commencement of the Act.

The provisions set out as regulations in the first schedule to this order specify certain miscellaneous duties and prohibitions imposed, with a view to the preservation of safe working and the avoidance of accidents, in some cases on persons employed, and in other cases on all persons, above and below ground at mines of coal, stratified ironstone, shale and fireclay. These regulations comprise, and will at the commencement of the Act replace, provisions of the regulations and enactments specified in the second schedule to the order.