Section 31. In section 57 of the principal Act,

31. In section 57 of the principal Act,— (i) in clause (c), for the words "qualifications of managers", the words and brackets "qualifications (including age) of agents and managers" shall be substituted; (ii) for clause (h), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:— "(h) for providing for inquiries to be made under this Act, including any inquiry relating to misconduct or incompetence on the part of any person holding a certificate under this Act and for the suspension or cancellation of any such certificate and for providing, wherever necessary, that the person appointed to hold an inquiry shall have all the powers of a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, for the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents and material objects;"; or 1939] Mines (Amendment) 473 (iii) for clause (j), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:— "(j) for prohibiting, restricting or regulating the employment of adolescents and women in mines or in any class of mines or on particular kinds of labour which are attended by danger to the life, safety or health of such persons and for limiting the weight of any single load that may be carried by any such person;"; (iv) for clauses (m) and (n), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:— "(m) for providing for the safety of the roads and working places in mines, including the siting, maintenance and extraction or reduction of pillars or blocks of minerals and the maintenance of sufficient barriers between mine and mine;" (n) for the inspection of workings and sealed off fire-areas in a mine, and for the restriction of workings in the vicinity of the sea or any lake or river or any other body of surface water, whether natural or artificial, or of any public road or building, and for requiring due precaution to be taken against the irruption or inrush of water or other liquid matter into, outbreak of fire in or premature collapse of, any workings;"; (v) for clause (p), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:— "(p) for regulating, subject to the provisions of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910, and of any rules made thereunder, the generation, storage, transformation, transmission and use of electricity in mines and for providing for the care and the regulation of the use of all electrical apparatus and electrical cables in mines and of all other machinery and plant therein;"; (vi) in clause (s),— (a) after the words "explosions or ignitions", the words "of inflammable gas or dust" shall be inserted; (b) after the words "collapse of" wherever they occur, the word "workings" shall be inserted; 351 M. of Law—60 474 Mines (Amendment) [ACT 62 (vii) in clause (t), for the words "for prescribing the notices", the words, brackets, letter and figures "for prescribing under clause (g) of sub-section (1) of section 23, the types of accidents and for prescribing the notices" shall be substituted; (viii) for clause (u), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:— "(u) for prescribing the plans, and sections and field notes connected therewith, to be kept by owners, agents and managers of mines and the manner and places in which such plans, sections and field notes are to be kept for purposes of record and for the submission of copies thereof to the Chief Inspector; and for requiring the making of fresh surveys and plans by them, and in the event of non-compliance, for having the survey made and plans prepared through any other agency and for the recovery of expenses thereof in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue;"; (ix) in clause (x), for the words "public work or classes of public works which the Central Government may, by general or special order, specify in this behalf", the words "public roads or other works, as the case may be, which are maintained by the Government or any local authority" shall be substituted; (x) after clause (y), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— "(yy) for requiring protective works to be constructed by the owner, agent or manager of a mine before the mine is closed, and in the event of non-compliance, for getting such works executed by any other agency and for recovering the expenses thereof from such owner in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue;". Amendment of section 58.