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1954 CHAPTER 70 2 and 3 Eliz.2
An Act to make fresh provision with respect to the management and control of mines and quarries and for securing the safety, health and welfare of persons employed thereat; to regulate the employment thereat of women and young persons; to require the fencing of abandoned and disused mines and of quarries; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[25th November 1954] {2nd year of Elizabeth's reign}
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70/section/180
The above definition was maintained in The Mines Regulations 2014:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3248/contents/made
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2024/regulation/3/made
Mines and Quarries Act 1954?Mine? means an excavation or system of excavations (including all excavations to which a common system of ventilation is provided) made for the purpose of, or in connection with, the extraction, wholly or substantially by means involving persons working below ground, of?
(a)minerals (in their natural state or in solution or suspension), or
(b)mineral products.
1954 CHAPTER 70 2 and 3 Eliz.2
An Act to make fresh provision with respect to the management and control of mines and quarries and for securing the safety, health and welfare of persons employed thereat; to regulate the employment thereat of women and young persons; to require the fencing of abandoned and disused mines and of quarries; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[25th November 1954] {2nd year of Elizabeth's reign}
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70/section/180
The above definition was maintained in The Mines Regulations 2014:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3248/contents/made
The Quarries Regulations 1999:Meaning of quarry
3.?(1) In these Regulations ?quarry? means?
(a)subject to paragraph (2), an excavation or system of excavations made for the purpose of, or in connection with, the extraction of minerals (whether in their natural state or in solution or suspension) or products of minerals, being neither a mine nor merely a well or borehole or a well and borehole combined;
(b)any reclamation site (and for this purpose ?reclamation site? means a site where the extraction of minerals forms part of the process whereby that site is restored for agricultural, industrial or domestic use) from which minerals are being extracted for sale or further use; or
(c)any disused tip which is not at a mine being worked within the meaning of regulation 2(3) of the Management and Administration of Safety and Health at Mines Regulations 1993(1) from which minerals are being extracted for sale or further use.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2024/regulation/3/made