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74 of 2008
The Mine Health and Safety Amendment Act 74 of 2008 aims:
- to amend the Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996, so as:
- to review and strengthen enforcement provisions;
- to simplify the administrative system for the issuing of fines;
- to reinforce offences and penalties;
- to substitute, add and remove ambiguities in certain definitions and expressions; and
- to effect certain amendments necessary to ensure consistency with other laws, particularly the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
- 30 May 2009 except for section 16, 26 (Gazette 32226 of 12 May 2009)