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Power to apply to diseases provisions as to notification of accidents.
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100.—(1) The Minister may by order apply (subject to such exceptions, adaptations and modifications, if any, as may be specified in the order) the provisions of section 98 to the contraction, by a person employed at a mine or quarry, of any such disease as may be specified in the order.
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(2) In any proceedings which, by virtue of an order under this section, are taken under this Act in respect of a failure to give notice of the contraction by a person employed at a mine or quarry of a disease, it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he was not aware that the first-mentioned person had contracted the disease.
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