Mines And Quarries (Tips) Act 1969

1. Introductory Text

2. Part I Security of Tips Associated with Mines and Quarries

   1. 1. Security of certain tips and application of Mines and Quarries Act 1954.

   2. 2. Tips to which Part I applies.

   3. 3. Duties of owners and managers and powers of inspectors.

   4. 4. Notification of beginning and ending of tipping operations.

   5. 5. Tipping rules.

   6. 6. Plans and sections of tips.

   7. 7. Transmission and preservation of plans, etc. relating to tips at abandoned mines and quarries.

   8. 8, 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   9. 10. Interpretation of Part I.

3. Part II Prevention of Public Danger from Disused Tips

   1. 11. Local authorities having functions under Part II.

   2. 12. Information relating to disused tips.

   3. 13. Right of entry to carry out exploratory tests, etc.

   4. 14. Notice requiring owner of disused tip to carry out remedial operations.

   5. 15. Appeals against notices under s. 14.

   6. 16. Cancellation by local authority of notice under s. 14.

   7. 17. Carrying out of remedial operations and works of reinstatement by local authority.

   8. 18. Right of entry to carry out remedial operations and works of reinstatement.

   9. 19. Contribution orders.

   10. 20. Compensation for damage or disturbance.

   11. 21. Recovery from contributories of expenses of owner carrying out remedial operations.

   12. 22. Appeals against demands under s. 21.

   13. 23. Right of local authority to recover certain expenses.

   14. 24. Appeals against demands under s. 23.

   15. 25. Grants towards local authority expenditure.

   16. 26. Penalty for obstructing remedial operations and damaging completed works.

   17. 27. Offences under Part II.

   18. 28. “ The court” in England and Wales.

   19. 29. Regulations and orders.

   20. 30. Service of documents.

   21. 31. Ecclesiastical property.

   22. 32. Raising of money in special cases to meet expenditure under Part II.

   23. 33. Application of provisions of Public Health Act 1936.

   24. 34. Miscellaneous provisions relating to local authorities, etc. in Scotland.

   25. 35. Application to Scotland.

   26. 36. Interpretation of Part II.

4. Part III General Provisions

   1. 37. Financial provisions.

   2. 38. Short title, citation, commencement and extent.

5. SCHEDULES

   1. SCHEDULE 1

      Modifications of Mines and Quarries Act 1954

      1. 1. In paragraph (b) of section 1(1) of the principal Act...

      2. 2. In subsection (2) of section 2 of the principal Act...

      3. 3. In section 89 of the principal Act (penalisation of failure...

      4. 4. . . . . . . . . . ....

      5. 5. In section 135 of the principal Act (which requires that...

      6. 6. (1) For the purposes of sections 145 and 146 of...

      7. 7. For the purposes of Part XIV of the principal Act...

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      Provisions applicable where Local Authority carries out Remedial Operations on Disused Tip of which it is Owner

      1. 1. The provisions of this Schedule apply where a local authority...

      2. 2. Before commencing remedial operations, or as soon thereafter as is...

      3. 3. Where a local authority has served a notice under paragraph...

      4. 4. Where a local authority has served a notice under paragraph...

      5. 5. Where remedial operations are carried out by a local authority...

      6. 6. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, where...

      7. 7. (1) In any case where— (a) a local authority has...

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      Claims for Compensation by Owners and Contributories

      1. 1. (1) This Schedule applies to the owner of a disused...

      2. 2. (1) Where this Schedule applies to the owner of a...

      3. 3. (1) Where this Schedule applies to a contributory then, subject...

      4. 4. Any reference in this Schedule to remedial operations includes a...

      5. 5. Where Schedule 2 to this Act applies, the preceding provisions...

      6. 6. (1) The time within which the owner of a disused...

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      Modifications of Sections 21 and 22 where notice under Section 14 is cancelled

      1. 1. In any case where— (a) a local authority has served...

      2. 2. Any reference in those sections to remedial operations carried out...

      3. 3. (1) In determining, for the purpose of sections 21 and...

      4. 4. Where, by virtue of an order under section 16(4), the...