An Act to remove for a period not exceeding one year the limitation upon the number of days on which the hours of employment below ground in coal mines may be extended under section three of the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908; to restrict the duration of such extensions to half an hour on any one day, and to provide for the maintenance during the period aforesaid of minimum percentage additions to basis rates of wages and of subsistence rates of wages.
[8th July 1931]
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent
During the continuance of this section, section three of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, shall have effect as if for the words “on not more than sixty days in any calendar year,” and subsection (2) thereof, were omitted therefrom, and as if for the words “one hour” there were therein substituted the words “half an hour.”
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of s.1 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 2, 3(3) (4) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)
(1)This Act may be cited as the Coal Mines Act 1931 and the Coal Mines Acts 1887 to 1930 and this Act may be cited together as the Coal Mines Acts 1887 to 1931.
(2)This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
(3), (4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 2, 3(3) (4) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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