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These Regulations may be cited as the Mines (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and come into operation on 21st March 2022.
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(1) The Mines Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of “action level” substitute—“
 “action level” in relation to respirable dust, means a concentration in air equal to or greater than 3mg/m3 as a time-weighted average over a 40 hour period;”.
(3) Omit regulation 44.
(4) In regulation 45—
(a) in paragraph (5) omit “and respirable crystalline silica”; and
(b) in paragraph (6)—
(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a) omit “or respirable crystalline silica”, and
(ii) in sub-paragraph (a) omit “relevant”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for the Economy on 20th January 2022.
Colin Jack
A senior officer of the
Department
