19Power to make general and special regulations with respect to metalliferous mines
(1)The provisions of sections eighty-six, eighty-seven, and one hundred and seventeen of, and the Second Schedule to, the Coal Mines Act, 1911 (which relate to the making of general and special regulations), shall apply to metalliferous mines within the meaning of the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 to 1875, as if they were re-enacted in those Acts and in terms made applicable to those mines but with this modification, that in the said section eighty-six for the reference to Part II. of, or the Third Schedule to, the Coal Mines Act, 1911, there shall be substituted a reference to the general rules contained in section twenty-three of the [35 & 36 Vict. c. 77.] Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872.
(2)For the purposes of the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 and [38 & 39 Vict. c. 39.] 1875, the expression " mine " does not include any part of the premises on which any manufacturing process, other than a process ancillary to the getting, dressing, or preparation for the sale of minerals is carried on.