§ For the purpose of ascertaining the geological conformation and the position, direction, and dip of strata, any officer of the Minister of Munitions shall have the same rights as to the production and examination of plans and sections kept at a mine in pursuance of Section twenty of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, or Section nineteen of the Metalliferous Mines Act, 1872, as are by those Acts conferred on inspectors, and those sections shall apply accordingly.
3157§ Lords Amendments:
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Leave out the words "the geological conformation and the position, direction and dip of strata," and insert instead thereof the words,
on behalf of the Minister of Munitions the position of the workings, actual and prospective, of any mines or abandoned mines through or near which it is proposed to sink any shaft or borehole for the purpose of searching for or getting petroleum.
§ —Agreed to.
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Leave out the words "of the Minister of Munitions," and insert instead thereof the words
appointed by the Director of the Geological Survey.
§ —Agreed to.
§ Leave out the words "at a mine."—Agreed to.
§ Leave out the word "Section" ["Section twenty"], and insert instead thereof the word "Sections."—Agreed to.
§ After the word "twenty," insert the words "or twenty-one."—Agreed to.
§ Leave out the word "Section" ["Section nineteen"], and insert instead thereof the words "Sections fourteen or."—Agreed to.
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At the end, insert
(2) Any person entitled to sink a shaft or borehole for the purpose of searching for or getting petroleum shall before commencing to sink the same give notice in writing of his intention to the Director of the Geological Survey and shall keep a journal of any such shaft or borehole, 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 the Director of the Geological Survey or any officer appointed by him to have free access to any such shaft or borehole whilst in process of being sunk, and to inspect all specimens so obtained and kept and the journals of such shafts and boreholes, and if any person fails to comply with any obligation imposed on him by this provision he shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
§ —Agreed to.
§ After Clause 1, insert,