HC Deb 23 November 1911 vol 31 cc1435-6

(1) In addition to the reports specially required by this Act, it shall be the duty of every person on whom responsible duties are imposed with respect to safety or to the condition of the roadways, workings, ventilation, machinery, shafts, shot-firing, safety lamps, electrical plant, or animals at a mine, and who shall be required to do so by the regulations of the mine to make at such intervals as may be fixed by the regulations of the mine full and accurate reports in the prescribed form of the matters falling within the scope of his duties.

(2) Copies of such of the reports required to be made under Sections sixteen and sixty-four of this Act as may be prescribed, shall be posted up at the pit head not later than ten o'clock in the morning on the day following the day on which the reports are made and remain posted until ten o'clock in the morning on the following day.

Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), after the word "mine" ["regulations of the mine"], insert the words "in a book to be kept at the mine."

Leave out the words "in the prescribed form."—[Mr. Masterman.]