Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969

7Transmission and preservation of plans, etc. relating to tips at abandoned mines and quarries

(1)Provision may be made by regulations for requiring that, in the event of the abandonment of a mine or quarry, the owner of the mine or quarry shall, within the prescribed period, send to the inspector for the district—

(a)all such plans, drawings and sections relating to tips associated with the mine or quarry as were required to be kept by virtue of section 6 above ; and

(b)such other information as may be prescribed with respect to the nature and quantity of the refuse deposited on, and any other prescribed matters relating to, any tip associated with the mine or quarry.

(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, plans, drawings, sections and other information sent to an inspector in pursuance of subsection (1) above shall be preserved by the Minister or by some other person under arrangements made or approved by the Minister.

(3)Where, at the time at which the working of a mine or quarry is resumed, any plans, drawings, sections or other information relating to a tip associated, or formerly associated, with the mine or quarry are, by virtue of subsection (2) above, preserved by the Minister or by some other person (not being the owner of the mine or quarry), the owner shall, on giving not less than fourteen days' notice to the person by whom they are preserved and (where that person is not the Minister) to the Minister, be entitled to have the plans, drawings, sections and other information delivered to him.

(4)If required to do so before the expiry of a notice given by him under subsection (3) above, the owner of a mine or quarry shall afford to the Minister a reasonable opportunity of making copies of the whole, or such part as the Minister thinks fit, of any plans, drawings, sections and other information to which the notice relates.