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Section 10

[(b) " coal mine " means any excavation where any operation for the purpose of searching for or obtaining coal has been or is being carried on, and includes—

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10 [(b) " coal mine " means any excavation where any operation for the purpose of searching for or obtaining coal has been or is being carried on, and includes— (i) all borings and bore holes; (ii) all shafts, in or adjacent to and belonging to a coal mine, whether in the course of being sunk or not; (iii) all levels and inclined planes in the course of being driven; (iv) any open cast working or quarry, that is to say, an excavation where any operation for the purpose of searching for or obtaining coal has been or is being carried on , not being a shaft or an excavation which extends below superjacent ground; (v) all conveyors or aerial rope-ways provided for the bringing into or removal from a coal mine of coal or other articles or for the removal of refuse therefrom; (vi) all adits, levels, planes, machinery , works, railways, tramways and sidings, in or adjacent to and belonging to a coal mine; (vii) all workshops situated within the precincts of a coal mine and under the same management and used for purposes connected with that coal mine or a number of coal mines under the same management; (viii) any office of a coal mine; (ix) all power stations for supplying electricity for the purpose of working the coal mine or a number of coal mines under the same management;