The Coal and Other Mines (Metrication) Regulations 1978

• Citation: S.I. 1978/1648
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Coal and Other Mines (Metrication) Regulations 1978 and shall come into operation on 12th December 1978.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Section 2 Amendments to Instruments to substitute metric measurements for imperial measurements

(1) The provisions of the Instruments specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be amended by substituting for the measurements set out opposite thereto in column 3 (and relating to the matters specified in column 2) of that Schedule the measurements set out in the corresponding entry in column 4 and the amendments shall apply as specified in column 5.

(2) 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.

Section 3 Amendments to the Coal and other Mines (Working Plans) Rules 1956

The Coal and Other Mines (Working Plans) Rules 1956 shall have effect subject to the following amendments:—

(a) in Rule 4(1) after the word “level” there shall be inserted the words “from Ordnance Datum or” ;

(b) in Rule 5(1)—

(i) for the words “ten thousand feet below” there shall be substituted “or, if it is used for the purposes of Rule 4,” and

(ii) at the end there shall be added the words “or Ordnance Datum, as the case may be” , and

(c) in Rule 12(b), before the word “assumed” there shall be inserted the words “Ordnance Datum or”