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Part IV.
PROVISIONS REGARDING WATER.
supply
21. (i) It shall not be lawful for the lessee of any mining land or holder of a Alteration prospecting licence to make or permit any other person to make, without sanction of in water Government, any such alteration in the water supply as may prejudicially affect the prohibited. water supply enjoyed by Government or any other persons or land.
(ii) Whenever any such alteration shall have been so made, the lessee or licensee of the lands benefited thereby shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be pre- sumed to have made it.
(iii) Any person who shall in the course of mining or prospecting operations interfere with the bank of any river, strean or water course may, by written order of Government be required to restore the same to the condition in which it was immedi- ately prior to such interference or to re-make the same in such manner as may be specified in the order.
of water.
22.--(i) Every lessee or holder of a prospecting licence who shall use water in Purification connexion with his mining or prospecting operations in whatever way shall make such provision as will ensure that all water so used shall, before it leaves the area on which it has been so used, be freed from all chemicals deleterious to animal or vege- table life.
(ii) No lessee of mining land or holder of a prospecting licence shall allow effluent water from any area under his control containing solid matter in excess of 500 grains per gallon to discharge into any river or natural water course or otherwise pass beyond his control.
(iii) The Government shall on complaint of failure on the part of any lessee or holder of a prospecting licence to comply with the requirements of sub-sections (i) and (ii) hold an inquiry into the matter of such complaint, and may, with or without such complaint at any time order any such person to provide such fixed masonry spill- ways, dams, settling pits and other mechanical appliances or devices and to use such chemical methods as may be necessary for effectual compliance with the said sub- sections, and may also order such person to suspend his mining or prospecting opera- tions until such provision has been made and such methods adopted.
(iv) Compliance with an order of Government made under sub-section (iii) shall not affect the liability incurred by any such person through breach of the provi- sions of sub-sections (i) and (ii).
Part V.
THE REGULATION OF MINING OPERATIONS.
23.—(i) No gunpowder, dynamite, petroleum or other inflammable oil in bulk, or other substance of an explosive or dangerous nature, shall be brought onto, stored, placed or used upon any land held under mining lease or prospecting licence except in such places, in such quantities, in such manner and on such conditions as shall be approved by Government; and no detonator, match or other highly inflammable sub- stance or liquid shall be stored together with any explosive substance or liquid.
(ii) Only wooden tamping rods in charging holes for blasting and only regula- tion pliers for fixing the detonator to the fuse may be used and only clay or other suit- able material shall be used for tamping.
(iii) Sufficient warning shall be given to enable all persons in the vicinity of the workings to reach a place of safety before any fuse is ignited. The number of shots exploding shall be counted and if all the shots have not exploded no one shall be al- lowed to enter the working place for a period of thirty minutes after the fuses were lighted.
(iv) A charge that has misfired shall not be withdrawn and only such tamping as can be easily removed may be withdrawn to enable the missed charge to be re- primed and fired; alternatively a new hole shall be bored by hand parallel to but not below and not nearer than 18 inches to the misfire and shall be charged with one and a half times the amount of explosive in the misfired hele:
Explosives not to be used in mine or
stored or
building
except as
prescribed.