22No fees for certain services

22 No fees for certain services

22 No fees for certain services

(1) The mines rescue company must not charge fees for services provided by it in the exercise of the functions specified in section 14.

(2) Despite subsection (1), the mines rescue company may charge fees for providing rescue services and facilities (including rescue equipment) to deal with an emergency in an underground coal mine in the State.

(3) However, the mines rescue company is not to charge any fee in respect of the first 8 hours (or such longer period as the regulations may prescribe) during which it provides those services and facilities in relation to the emergency.

(4) A reference in this section to the providing of facilities includes a reference to the use of those facilities.

Note—

Section 14 sets out the principal functions of the mines rescue company. Except as provided by section 22 (2), the costs of exercising those functions are to be defrayed by the contributions, under section 19, of owners of coal mines.

s 22: Am 2002 No 125, Sch 1 [2] [3].