Mines and Quarries Act, 1965

Plans

Plans.

21.—(1) Regulations may require the manager of a mine to keep at the office at the mine or at some other place approved by an inspector—

(a) accurate plans of all the workings (whether abandoned or not) in the mine or within, or within a prescribed distance from, the boundaries of the mine or of such of those workings as may be prescribed,

(b) accurate sections of the seams or veins for the time being worked in the mine and of all the strata overlying them,

in such form and manner and complying with such conditions as may be prescribed.

(2) It shall be the duty both of the owner and of the manager, and of such other persons as may be prescribed, to afford to the person preparing any plan or section all such information and facilities as he may need for the purpose.

(3) Regulations may require, in the case of the abandonment or disuse of a mine or of a seam or vein in a mine, the owner to send to an inspector such plans and sections relating thereto and to the overlying strata, in such circumstances, within such time, in such form and manner and complying with such conditions as may be prescribed.