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Notices of accidents in mines and factories.
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29.—(1) There shall be kept constantly posted up in some conspicuous place at or near every mine, quarry, factory or workshop where it may be conveniently read by the persons employed therein, a summary in the prescribed form of the provisions of this Act with regard to a notice of accident and the procedure to be followed in the case of industrial diseases, and in the event of such summary becoming effaced, obliterated or destroyed, it shall be renewed with all reasonable dispatch.
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(2) If in any mine, quarry, factory or workshop the provisions of the foregoing sub-section are not complied with, the owner, agent or manager of such mine or quarry or the occupier of such factory or workshop shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
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(3) Any proceedings under the foregoing sub-section may be instituted by an inspector of mines or factories.
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(4) The want of, or any defect or inaccuracy in a notice of accident shall not be a bar to the maintenance of proceedings for the recovery of compensation under this Act where the employer is the owner of a mine or quarry or the occupier of a factory or workshop—
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(a) if the summary mentioned in sub-section (1) of this section has not been posted up or, in the event of its becoming effaced, obliterated or destroyed, has not been renewed in accordance with the said sub-section; or
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(b) if the accident has been reported by or on behalf of the employer to an inspector of mines or factories; or
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(c) if the accident has been entered in any register of accidents kept by or on behalf of the employer at the mine, quarry, factory or workshop; or
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(d) if the injury has been treated in an ambulance room at the mine, quarry, factory or workshop.
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(5) In this and the next following section the expression “factory or workshop” includes any works or premises to which any of the provisions of the Factory and Workshops Acts, 1901 to 1920, apply.
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