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36. Without prejudice to the obligation imposed by section seventy-seven of the Act, where at any time there is reasonable cause to apprehend that any working in a mine is within one hundred and twenty feet of a place which may contain an accumulation of water or other liquid matter or noxious gas—
(a)the working shall not be more than eight feet in width or eight feet in height;
(b)there shall constantly be kept in advance of the face of the working at least one bore hole not less than ten feet in length in igneous rock or fifteen feet in length in other strata; and
(c)there shall be kept such flank, roof and floor bore holes of similar length as may be necessary to ensure that any water or other liquid matter or gas in that place will be tapped in the first instance by a bore hole.
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