1986 Ed.]
Mines (Safety) Regulations
[CAP. 285
B 5
[Subsidiary]
MINES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS
G.N.A. 125/54.
L.N. 156/63.
L.N. 15/71.
(Cap. 285, section 67)
L.N. 146/76.
L.N. 214/77.
L.N. 285/85.
[15 October 1954.]
L.N. 87/86.
PART I
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PRELIMINARY
1. These regulations may be cited as the Mines (Safety) Regulations.
Citation.
2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
"agent" is a person holding a power of attorney in accordance with section 7 of the Ordinance;
"gang foreman" means the labourer or miner in charge of a gang or, if doubt exists whether a particular labourer or miner in the gang is in charge, the responsibility of the gang foreman shall devolve upon the manager;
"kilowatt power" in relation to steam, internal combustion or ignition compression engines means the output kilowatt power declared in the maker's specifications;
"machinery book" means a book so inscribed upon the cover and retained in the manager's possession and in which shall be entered the matters required by these regulations;
"manager" means the person notified, from time to time under regulation 88(4), to the Superintendent of Mines as being responsible for the safety, welfare, health and housing conditions of persons employed in prospecting or mining operations, and when no person has been so notified, it means the holder of a prospecting or mining licence or the lessee of a mining lease or the agent of any of them;
"opencast" means a working in which excavation is performed from the surface or which is exposed to open air;
"shot-firer" means the holder of a valid mine blasting certificate issued in accordance with these regulations;
"steeply inclined" means, in connexion with shafts or other underground excavations, an inclination to the horizontal of forty-five degrees or more.
L.N. 87/86.
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