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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Mines (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and come into operation on 21st March 2022.
2.—(1) The Mines Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(1) 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”.
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