Certain provisions of principal Act to apply to works, machinery, and plant used in connection with quarrying operations.

Section 10 of principal Act (as to accidents in quarries) amended.

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Stone-quarries Amendment Act 1922

Public Act		1922 No 42
Date of assent		31 October 1922

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Certain provisions of principal Act to apply to works, machinery, and plant used in connection with quarrying operations.
3	Section 3 of principal Act amended.
4	Section 10 of principal Act (as to accidents in quarries) amended.

An Act to amend the Stone-quarries Act, 1910.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Stone-quarries Amendment Act, 1922, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Stone-quarries Act, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Certain provisions of principal Act to apply to works, machinery, and plant used in connection with quarrying operations.

The provisions of the principal Act with respect to accidents in, and the inspection of, quarries shall apply with respect to accidents happening in connection with, and to the inspection of, all works, machinery, and plant of any description constructed or erected for use in connection with quarrying operations in any quarry:

Provided that nothing in any of such provisions of the principal Act shall apply with respect to machinery as defined by the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908.

3 Section 3 of principal Act amended.

Section three of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—

(a.)

By omitting from subsection two all words after the word “quarrying,” and substituting the words “and has passed such examination as may be prescribed by regulations in that behalf.”

(b.)

By inserting, after subsection two, the following subsections:—

“(2a.)

Any person may make application to the Inspector to be examined under this section, and shall forward with his application a fee of one pound:

“Provided that if the candidate fails to pass such examination he may, without payment of any further fee, be examined again at such time as may be fixed in that behalf by the Inspector.

“(2b.)

Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Inspector may refuse a permit upon any grounds he may deem desirable:

“Provided that any person to whom a permit has been refused on any ground other than that of failure to pass the prescribed examination may, within fourteen days of his having received notice of such refusal, appeal to the Minister of Mines, whose decision shall be final.”

4 Section 10 of principal Act (as to accidents in quarries) amended.

Section ten of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows: —

(a.)

By repealing subsections one and two, and substituting the following:—.

“(1.)

Where any accident in a quarry—

“(a.)

Causes loss of life to any person; or

“(b.)

Causes any fracture of the head or of any limb, or any dislocation of a limb, or any other serious personal injury to any person—

the manager or other person for the time being in charge of the quarry shall forthwith by telegraph give notice of such accident in the prescribed form to the Inspector.

“(2.)

Every manager or other person as aforesaid who omits to give such notice is liable to a fine of twenty pounds.”

(b.)

By inserting in subsection three, after the word “manager,” the words “or other person in charge of the quarry.”

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