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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mines and Quarries (Metrication) Regulations 1976 and shall come into operation on 1st February 1977.
(2) In these Regulations—
 “the Act” means the Mines and Quarries Act 1954.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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Section 87(2) of the Act shall be amended by substituting for the measurement of ten feet referred to therein the measurement of two metres.
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(1) The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Parts I and II of Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be amended by substituting for the measurements set out opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule the measurements set out in the corresponding entry in column 3 of that Schedule; so however that the amendments set out in Part II of that Schedule shall not apply to shafts sunk, or as the case may be, lengths of road made, before these Regulations come into operation.
(2) The provisions of the Coal and Other Mines (Height of Travelling Roads) Regulations 1956 specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall be amended by substituting for the measurements set out opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule the measurements set out in the corresponding entry in column 3 of that Schedule; so however that the amendment set out in Part II of that Schedule shall not apply to any length of road made before these Regulations come into operation.
(3) The provisions of the Coal and Other Mines (Ventilation) Regulations 1956, as amended, specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall be amended by substituting for the measurements set out opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule the measurements set out in the corresponding entry in column 3 of that Schedule; so however that the amendments set out in Part II of that Schedule shall not apply to stoppings constructed before these Regulations come into operation.
(4) The provisions of the Coal Mines (Clearances in Transport Roads) Regulations 1959 specified in Schedule 4 to these Regulations shall be amended by substituting for the measurements set out opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule the measurements set out in the corresponding entry in column 3 of that Schedule.
(5) Where under this Regulation a measurement is required to be substituted in any provision for a measurement which occurs more than once in that provision, the substitution shall be made in each place where it occurs.
Alexander Eadie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy
John Grant
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment
2nd December 1976
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 2
PART I

 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
 Sections to be Amended Present Measurement Substituted Measurement
1 5(1)(b) Two miles 4 kilometres
2 23(2) Five feet 1·5 metres
  Four feet 1·2 metres
3 40(1) Seventy-five feet 23 metres
4 45(1)(a) and (b) Fifty feet 15 metres
5 46 Ninety feet 25 metres
6 59(2)(a) Four hundred and fifty feet 150 metres
PART II

 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
 Sections to be Amended Present Measurement Substituted Measurement
1 22(1) Forty-five feet 15 metres
2 28(2) One hundred and fifty feet 45 metres
3 35(1) Five feet six inches 1·7 metres
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 3
PART I

 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
 Regulation to be Amended Present Measurement Substituted Measurement
1 2(1) Five feet six inches 1·7 metres
2 2(1) and 2(1)(a) Nine hundred feet 275 metres
3 2(1)(b) Four hundred and fifty feet 135 metres
4 2(1) One hundred and fifty feet 45 metres
5 2(2) Four feet 1·2 metres
PART II

 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
 Regulation to be Amended Present Measurement Substituted Measurement
 2(1) Four feet six inches 1·4 metres
SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 3
PART I

 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
 Regulation to be Amended Present Measurement Substituted Measurement
1 2(1) Three hundred feet 90 metres
2 3(1) One hundred and fifty feet 45 metres
3 5(1) One hundred and fifty feet 45 metres
  Thirty feet 10 metres
4 6(1) One hundred and fifty feet 45 metres
5 7A Thirty feet 10 metres
6 9(2)(d) Four hundred and fifty feet 140 metres
  Three hundred feet 90 metres
7 12(1)(d) Three hundred feet 90 metres
8 21(2)(b) Nine inches 190 millimetres
9 24(2) and (4) Fifteen feet 5 metres
PART II

 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
 Regulation to be Amended Present Measurement Substituted Measurement
1 21(2)(a) Fifteen feet 5 metres
2 21(2)(b) Nine feet 3 metres
SCHEDULE 4
Regulation 3


 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
 Regulation/Schedule to be Amended Present Measurement Substituted Measurement
1 2(1) Nine hundred feet 275 metres
 definition of “unsettled ground”
2 6(1)(a) Two feet 600 millimetres
3 6(1)(b) Two and a half feet 760 millimetres
4 Schedule—Part I Two feet 600 millimetres
  One foot 300 millimetres
5 Schedule—Part II One foot 300 millimetres
  One and a half feet 450 millimetres
  Two feet 600 millimetres