Register of Blastlog Operations
to be kept.
Misfires.
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that the box cannot be closed unless the switch is removed from the box, and the shot firer shall carry the key of the switch while he connects the charges and shall carry out the firing himself;
(m) if a detonating or other instantaneous fuse is used the provi- sious contained in sub-paragraph (k) shall apply, except that the single detonator required to discharge all blasts shall not be inserted until after the warning signals required by sub- paragraph (e) have been made.
(2) Any person who, after the commencement of the warning signals referred to in paragraph (1), enters or, upon request being made to him by any public servant or any person engaged in the blasting, refuses to leave the blasting area shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Where blasting is carried out under water, the provisions of this regulation sball apply subject to such modification as that circum. stance may require.
56. The shot firer in charge of any blasting shall keep a register in such form as may be prescribed by the Authority of the holes bored, depth of the holes, the amount of explosives used in each bore and the time of each firing.
57. (1) Where any shot fails to fire-
(a) if the firing was effected electrically, the circuit shall be tested again, and an attempt shall be made to refire the charge before it is approached by any person, and, if the attempt fails, the leads shall be disconnected from the exploder by the shot firer and five minutes shall be allowed to elapse before the charge is approached:
(5) if the firing was effected by safety fuse, the charge shall not be approached by any person until not less than one half of an hour has elapsed since the firing:
(c) if the bore hole is tamped but undamaged, the tamping shall be carefully removed with a wooden or copper scraper or scoop and a fresh primer shall be placed against the charge. tamped and fired;
(d) if the bore bole is damaged, another hole shall be drilled parallel to the first hole and not less than one foot distant from it and shall be loaded, tamped and fired;
(e) the place where the misfire occurred shall be searched after
the firing for any unexploded explosive;
(f) no explosive, detonator, detonator wire or fuse shall be with-
drawn from the bore hole containing the charge;
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(g) the misfired explosive shall not be used again or returned to the store but shall be destroyed by some safe and suitable method by the shot firer in charge of the blasting;
(k) the charge shall not be approached within fifty feet by any person other than the shot firer in charge of the blasting until the explosive has been removed or fired or rendered safe; (if the direction of the bore bole cannot be accurately ascer-
tained, a surface charge may be used.
(2) Where blasting is carried out under water, the provisions of this regulation shall apply subject to such modification as that circum- stance may require.
58. (1) Any shot firer in charge of blasting shall notify the person Special
precautions. by whom he is employed of any special precautions which he may consider necessary for the safety of persons or property in the neighbourhood.
(2) Except with the permission of the Authority, no blasting sball be carried out until any precautions notified under this regulation have been taken.
Discharge of firework.
59. (1) Save as provided in paragraph (3), no person shall dis- Chischarge of charge or cause to be discharged any firework except under and in frework. accordance with a permit granted by the Authority.
(2) Any such permit shall be granted subject—
(a) to payment of the appropriate fee prescribed in regulation
183; and
(b) to such conditions or restrictions as the Authority may specify
in the permit.
(3) Notwithstanding the provision of paragraph (2), the Authority may in his discretion grant. by notice published in the Gazette and subject to such conditions or restrictions as he may specify in the notice. a general permission for the discharge of fireworks by the public or by any specified class thereof.
Penalties.
60. (1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulation Offences and 4. 46 or 47 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary con- penalties, viction to a fine of eight thousand dollars and imprisonment for three months.
(2) Any person who stores any explosive or causes or permits any explosive to be stored in contravention of any of the provisions of