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retain

certificate.

(7) Save as provided in paragraph (6), no person other than the Superintendent of Mines shall make any endorsement on, alteration of or erasure from any mine blasting certificate issued under these regulations. Any certificate containing any unauthorized endorsement, alteration or erasure shall be invalid.

(8) Every person to whom a mine blasting certificate is issued shail, immediately upon receipt, endorse thereon bis usual signature in the space provided or, if illiterate, record his thumb- print.

(9) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain the issue of a mine blasting certificate by means of any false or fraudulent representation or statement or wilfully or recklessly give false information as to any of the matters in respect of which informa- tion is or may be required in connexion with his application for a mine blasting certificate.

(10) A holder of a mine blasting certificate whose certificate has been lost may apply to the Superintendent of Mines for the issue of a new certificate who, if satisfied as to the identity of the applicant and the loss of the certificate, may issue a new certificate. which shall bear the endorsentent "DUPLICATE" in replace- ment thereof, upon payment of a fee of five dollars.

(1) A mine blasting certificate issued under these regula- tions may be suspended or revoked by the order of a mines officer for good and sufficient reasons:

Provided that any urder shall, at the request of the person aggrieved, be referred to the Superintendent of Mines whose decision shall be final.

Duty of 23. Every manager upon engaging a shot-firer shall examine manager to his mine blasting certificate, and shall satisfy himself that the holder is the person whose signature or mark is recorded thereon in accordance with these regulations. The manager shail retain the mine blasting certificate until the determination of the holder's engagement.

Person

24. (1) The preparation and firing of charges shall be by a

entitled to shut-firer,

blast, and

his respon. sibility.

(2) In the preparation of charges and the firing of such charges a shot-lirer may be assisted by reliable persons, who are not shot-firers, when acting under his direct supervision but he shall be personally responsible for any accident occurring through such person's ignorance, inexperience, or carelessness and in no case shall any person except a shot-firer actually prepare a detonator or charge any hole.

(3) There shall be no simultaneous fring with electric detonators except in the case of shaft sinking, opencast workings or mine workings.

25. Before beginning drilling operations the gang foreman Loose sball-

ground to be removed bofore drilling.

(a) satisfy himself that all overhanging and loose or loosened

debris has been removed from the face and immediate Working vicinity of the place of operations;

(b) see that working faces which are to be drilled are thoroughly scraped and examined for sockets or butts of holes and for charges which may have misfired,

faces to be examined.

26. (1) Before commencing work either at the beginning of Duty of a shift or after blasting, the gang foreman in charge of the shift gang fore- shall be the first to enter the place of operations and, until he the first

man to be considers it safe, he shall not allow any person to enter therein except those required by him to make the place safe.

(2) In shaft sinking the gang foreman in charge accom- panied, if necessary, by not more than two other persons shall carefully examine the shaft from top to bottom after blasting and shall remove all loose debris which may have settled on the shaft timbers or fittings.

to enter place of operations.

when

27. When the distance between approaching workings in Action to either of which blasting is being done is reduced to thirty feet, be taken the workmen shall be withdrawn from both faces whilst blasting blasting operations are taking place at either face.

takes place within thirty feet of each other.

of work

28. No person shali return to any working place until such Resumption place is free from the dust, smoke and fumes caused by blasting after and every gang foreman in charge of workmen shall be responsi- blasting.