Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Coal Mines (Pensions) Act 1958 - SECT 5

Definitions

5. Definitions

In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter-

agent, in relation to any mine, means any person appointed as the
representative of the owner in respect of the mine, or of any part thereof,
and as such superior to a manager appointed pursuant to this Act;

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manager means the person having the management of the mining operations in any
mine;

mine includes every shaft in the course of being sunk, every tunnel and road
in the course of being driven, and all the shafts tunnels roads works tramways
and sidings, both below ground and above ground, in and adjacent to and
belonging to a mine under this Act;

miner means any person employed in or about a mine;

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owner, in relation to any mine, means any person or body corporate who is the
immediate proprietor or lessee or occupier of the mine or of any portion
thereof, but does not include a person or a body corporate who merely receives
a royalty rent or fine from a mine, or is merely the proprietor of a mine
subject to any lease grant or licence for the working thereof, or is merely
the owner of the soil and not interested in the minerals of the mine; but any
contractor for the working of any mine or any portion thereof shall be subject
to this Act in like manner as if he were an owner, but so as not to exempt the
owner from any liability.

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