Provisions as to mines and quarries

106.-(1) None of the provisions of this Law shall apply to any premises forming part of a mine or quarry.

(2) In the case of any premises to which all or any of the provisions of this Law would apply but for subsection (1) of this section, the Yπουργικόν Συμβούλιον may by order direct that that subsection shall not apply to the premises and that the premises shall be treated for the purposes of this Law as not forming part of a mine or quarry.

(3) In the case of any premises to which all or any of the provisions of this Law apply, being premises which, but for the proviso to subsection (3) of section 3 of the Mines and Quarries (Regulation) Laws, would be deemed for the purposes of this Law to form part of a mine or quarry, the Υπουργικόν Συμβούλιον may by order direct that neither any of the provisions of this Law nor that proviso shall apply to the premises.

(4) In the case of premises which are a factory within the meaning of this Law or to which all or any of the provisions of this Law apply as if the premises were such a factory, being premises which, though not forming part of a mine or quarry, are occupied by the owner of a mine or quarry and used solely for the purpose of the provision or supply for or to a single mine or quarry, or jointly for or to more than one mine or quarry, of services or electricity, the Υπουργικόν Συμβούλιον may by order direct that, while the order is in force, none of the provisions of this Law shall apply to the premises and the premises shall be deemed for the purposes of this Law to form part of the mine or quarry or, as the case may be, of such one of them as may be specified in the order.

(5) References in subsections (1) to (4) of this section to provisions of this Law, shall be construed as exclusive of references to sections 70, 71, 75 and 76 and to the other provisions of this Law in so far as, by virtue of the said sections 70, 71, 75 and 76, they are applicable to premises in which steam boilers, hoists and lifts are used to building operations undertaken by way of trade or business or for the purposes of any industrial or commercial undertaking and to works of engineering construction so undertaken; but-

(a) the said section 71 shall not apply to winding gear in any mine or quarry;

(b) the said section 75 shall not apply to any building operations undertaken below ground in a mine;

(c) the said section 76 shall not apply to any works of engineering construction undertaken at any mine (whether above or below ground) or at a quarry.

(6) Where any machinery or apparatus is situate partly in a mine or quarry and partly in a factory within the meaning of this Law, the Υπουργικόν Συμβούλιον may by order direct that it shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Law and the Mines and Quarries (Regulation) Law, or any Law amending or substituted for the same, either to be wholly situate in the factory and not to be situate in the mine or quarry or to be wholly situate in the mine or quarry and not to be situate in the factory.

(7) The Υπουργικόν Συμβούλιον may direct that the Υπουργός and the Inspector of Mines shall make arrangements with respect to any premises or place in or adjacent to a quarry or mine, for the exercise and performance by the Inspector of Mines of any of the powers and duties of the Υπουργός or Chief Inspector under this Law and for the exercise and performance by the Υπουργός or Chief Inspector of any of the powers and duties of the Inspector of Mines relating to health, safety and welfare in quarries and mines, and it shall be lawful for the Inspector of Mines and his officers and the Υπουργός and his officers or the Chief Inspector respectively to exercise and perform the said powers and duties in accordance with such arrangements.