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Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973 (Act No. 78 of 1973)

Chapter II : Control in respect of mines and works, and determination of risk

12. Ad hoc application of provision of Act

 

(1) The Minister may by notice in the Gazette and on such conditions as he or she may deem desirable, declare that, as from a date to be specified in the notice, not being a date earlier than thirty days after the day on which the notice is published in the Gazette—
(a) any provision of this Act specified in the notice, which is applicable with reference to a controlled mine or a controlled works, shall apply with reference to a mine or works so specified which is not a controlled mine or a controlled works;
(b) subject to the provisions of section 10(1), any provision of this Act specified in the notice, which is applicable with reference to persons employed at a controlled mine or a controlled works, shall apply with reference to persons performing risk work at a mine or works so specified which is not a controlled mine or a controlled works;
(c) risk work at a mine or works specified in the notice which is not a controlled mine or a controlled works, shall be deemed to be risk work at a controlled mine or a controlled works.

 

(2) The provisions of section 10(2) shall mutatis mutandis apply with reference to any notice under subsection (1) of this section.