A.—sa.

Coal-mines.

(2.) Every person who seeks to obtain a certificate as enginedriver under this Act shall apply to the Board referred to in the aforesaid section forty-eight of " The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1902." 29. (1.) Any person holding a certificate of competency or of 5 service as a mine-manager or as an engine-driver, who is charged with any offence or misconduct likely to be detrimental to the proper or efficient discharge of his duties, may be called upon by the Board of Examiners to show cause why he should not be disqualified as a certified mine-manager or engine-driver, and if he fails to satisfy the 10 said Board he may, by an order of the Governor in Council published in the Government Gazette, be disqualified for any period from acting as a mine-manager or as an engine-driver. (2.) No person shall during the period of disqualification deliver any mine into the charge of the disqualified mine-manager, or any 15 such winding-engine or winding-machinery as aforesaid into the charge of the disqualified engine-driver ; and no such mine-manager or enginedriver shall, during the period of his disqualification, take charge of any mine or of any such winding-engine or winding-machinery as aforesaid. 20 30. (1.) Any person who acts in the capacity of mine-manager, or of engine-driver in charge of any such winding-engine or windingmachinery as aforesaid, without a certificate of competency or of service, or while he is disqualified as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be liable to a penalty not 25 exceeding five pounds for every day during which he shall act in such capacity. (2.) Every person who, in breach of this Act, employs any uncertificated or disqualified mine-manager or engine-driver shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be liable to 30 a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which he so employs such uncertificated or disqualified mine-manager or engine-driver. (3.) Every person acting as manager of a mine or as enginedriver in charge of any such winding-engine or winding-machinery as 35 aforesaid shall, on demand of any Inspector of Mines, Inspector of , Machinery, or other person authorised by the Minister, produce his certificate of competency or of service. 31. No female and no boy shall be employed in any capacity in or about any mine. 40 32. (1.) No youth shall be employed as lander or braceman at any time at a brace set over any shaft. (2.) No youth shall be employed for more than forty-eight hours in any week, exclusive of the time allowed for meals, nor more than eight hours in any day, except in cases of emergency. 45 33. (1.) Wherever any entrance to any mine or any communication within any part of any mine to any other part thereof is by means of a vertical shaft or pit or inclined plane or level, no person other than a properly competent person of the full age of eighteen years shall have charge of any engine, windlass, or gin (whether 50 driven or worked by manual labour or any other power), or of any part of the machinery, ropes, chains, or other tackle by or by means of which persons are brought up or passed down or along any such vertical shaft or pit or inclined plane or level.

Certified minemanager or enginedriver may be disqualified. 1891, No. 46, sec. 25

Penalties. Ibid, sec. 26

No female or boy to be employed in any mine. Ibid, sec. 27

Youths not to be employed in certain cases. Ibid, sec. 28

Youths under eighteen not to work engine, &c, in certain cases. Ibid, sec. 29

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