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# Coal Mines Act 1931 (repealed 20.11.1993)

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Coal Mines Act 1931 (repealed 20.11.1993)
1931 c.27

## 1 Temporary amendment of 8. Edw. 7. c. 57, s. 3. {#section-1}

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.”

## 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2}



## 3 †Short title, extent, commencement and duration. {#section-3}

(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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .