Section four, of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, which authorises the suspension of that Act as respects coal mines in the event of war and other emergencies, shall extend to all mines to which the other provisions of that Act apply in like manner as it extends to coal mines, and accordingly in that section after the words " demand for coal " there shall be inserted the words " or for the product of any other mines to which this Act applies " and for the words " coal mines " wherever they occur there shall be substituted the word " mines. "
This Act may be cited as the Coal Mines Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1917, and the Coal Mines Acts, 1887 to 1914, and this Act may be cited together as the Coal Mines Acts, 1887 to 1917.