Mining Industry Act 1926

16 & 17 Geo. 5 c. 28 · Enacted 4 August 1926 · Extends to England, Wales and Scotland

An Act to make provision for facilitating the working of minerals and the better organisation of the coal mining industry, and with respect to the welfare of persons employed therein, and for other purposes connected with that industry. I1

[4th August 1926]

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Commencement

I1: Act wholly in force at Royal Assent

Part s I—V
1—12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
14—17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
Part VI: Miscellaneous and General
20Power of coal-mining companies to establish profit sharing schemes. Repealed
21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
23Facilities to be given to United Kingdom Research and Innovation.
24. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
25. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
26Short title and extent.
Schedule Schedule

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20Power of coal-mining companies to establish profit sharing schemes.F1

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23Facilities to be given to United Kingdom Research and Innovation.F12 C1

(1)

Before any person sinks, for the purpose of searching for or getting any minerals, a shaft or borehole intended to reach a depth of more than F130.480 metres below the surface, he shall give to F2United Kingdom Research and Innovation (hereinafter referred to as “F3UKRI”) notice in writing of his intention to do so, and any person who for such a purpose sinks any such shaft or borehole shall keep a journal thereof, and shall retain for a period of not less than six months such specimens of the strata passed through as may have been obtained in the course of the sinking thereof, either as cores or fragments, and shall allow UKRI, or any officer appointed by them, to have free access at all reasonable times to any such shaft, borehole or core, to inspect and take copies of the journals of such shafts or boreholes, to inspect all specimens so obtained and kept, and to take representative specimens of any such cores.

(2)

If the person sinking any such shaft or borehole as aforesaid gives notice in writing to UKRI requiring them to treat as confidential any copies of journals or specimens so taken by UKRI or by any officer appointed by them, UKRI shall not allow those copies or specimens to be published or shown to any person not being an officer of UKRI, except with the consent of the person sinking such shaft or borehole:

Provided that, if at any time UKRI give notice to any person from whom such consent is required that, in their opinion, his consent is unreasonably withheld, then that person may, within three months after such notice is given, appeal to the F4High Court F5Court of Session but if at the expiration of that period no such appeal has been made, or if after hearing the appeal the High Court Court of Session do not make an order restraining them from doing so, UKRI may proceed as if such consent had been given.

(3)

The owner F6... or manager of every mine shall allow UKRI or any officer appointed by them to have free access at all reasonable times to all underground workings, and shall supply to UKRI or to any such officer as aforesaid such information and such specimens of seams or strata sunk through or opened out at the mine as may be reasonably required by UKRI.

(4)

If any person sinking any shaft or borehole, or the owner, ... or manager of any mine fails to comply with any obligation imposed on him by the foregoing provisions of this section, he shall, in respect of each offence, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F7F8level 3 on the standard scale.

F9(5)

Any officer appointed by F10UKRI shall have the same rights as to the production and inspection of plans, sections and drawings which, by or by virtue of the M1Mines and Quarries Act 1954, are required to be kept, as are by that Act conferred on inspectors, and that Act shall apply accordingly.

F11(6)

In subsection (1) above, the expression “minerals” includes petroleum within the meaning of Part I of the Petroleum Act 1998.

(2)

This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

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