The Miscellaneous Mines Order 1956

Interpretation

82.—(1) In these regulations the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—

“the Act” means the Mines and Quarries Act, 1954;

“air receiver” means—

(a)

any vessel (other than a pipe or coil, or an accessory, fitting or part of a compressor) for containing compressed air and connected with an air compressing plant; and

(b)

any fixed vessel for containing compressed air or compressed exhaust gas and used for the purpose of starting an internal combustion engine;

“banksman” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation fifteen;

“cage” includes skip or gig;

“kibble” includes any form of bucket, basket or barrel in which things may be raised or lowered in a shaft or staple-pit;

“mine” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation one;

“steam boiler” means any closed vessel, whether separate or one of a range, in which for any purpose steam is generated at pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and includes any economiser used to heat water being fed to any such vessel and any superheater used for heating steam.

(2) Expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Act or by these regulations shall (unless the contrary intention appears) have the same meanings in any document issued under the provisions of these regulations.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.