§ (1) The Minister may by order appoint for the purposes of this subsection a day in relation to a class of mines specified in the Order, and where a day is appointed under this subsection in relation to a class of mines it shall not, after that day, be lawful to use below ground in a mine of that class brattice sheeting other than of a type for the time being approved by the Minister for use in mines of that class.
§ (2) The Minister may by order appoint for the purposes of this subsection a day in relation to a class of mines specified in the Order or to parts specified in the Order of mines of a class so specified (being parts below ground) and—
- (a) where a day is appointed under this subsection in relation to a class of mines, it shall not, after that day, be lawful to use below ground in a mine of that class conveyor belting other than of a type approved by the Minister for use in mines of that class;
- (b) where a day is so appointed in relation to specified parts of mines of a specified class, it shall not, after that day, be lawful to use in any such part of a mine of that class conveyor belting other than of a type approved by the Minister for use in mines of that class.—[Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ Mr. Geoffrey LloydI beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time."
This Clause gives effect to an undertaking which I gave in Committee that we should take power in the Bill to deal with the compulsory use of fire-resisting brattice cloth and conveyor belting. It gives the Minister greater powers than he had in the Bill as it was before the Committee.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill.