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 which will cease to have effect at the commencement of the Act.

The provisions set out as regulations in the schedule to this order specify the places at which sanitary conveniences must be provided at mines of coal, stratified ironstone, shale and fireclay, and make provision with regard to the construction, equipment, cleaning and use of such conveniences. The regulations comprise, and will at the commencement of the Act replace, provisions of the General Regulations dated July 10, 1913, regs. 106 to 112, made under the Coal Mines Act, 1911.