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 schedule to this order relate to the precautions required to be taken at mines in which coal is worked to minimise the amount of inflammable dust in, or which could be raised into, the air below ground in such mines. These regulations comprise, and will at the commencement of the Act replace, provisions of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, s. 62, and of the Coal Mines General Regulations (Precautions against Coal Dust), 1939.