1954-HKRS30-8-44_Part02 — Page 36

Duty in respect of prospecting trenches and pits.

used shafts

12

37. (1) In digging prospecting trenches the ground shall be thrown out so as to form approximately equal ridges on each side, and in sinking prospecting pits the ground shall be thrown out so as to surround the pit and all necessary precautions shall be taken, either by filling up or fencing them, to prevent persons inadvertently falling into or entering such trenches or pits:

Provided that nothing in this regulation shall prevent the removal of excavated ground for sampling purpose.

(2) If in the opinion of the Superintendent of Mines disused prospecting or mining excavations are dangerous to life, or likely to endanger public traffic, he may order them to be filled in to the level of the surface or securely fenced in by the prospector, holder or lessee.

(3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of para- graphs (1) and (2) hereof shall be guilty of an offence, and Government shall in any event have the right to fill up or other- wise protect such trenches or other excavations at the expense of such person.

Duty to

38. The mouth of every shaft or entrance to a mine which protect dia- for the time being is out of use or used only as an air way, and and mining the approach of every open working not being ordinary prospect- entrances, ing pits or trenches, and all elevated and exposed platforms and

gangways shall be kept securely fenced or otherwise protected.

etc.

Respon-

39. Every holder of a prospecting licence, a mining licence sibility or a mining lease over ground on which there are old prospecting for old excavations, or mining excavations either open to the surface or underground, shall be responsible for preventing acress thereto or for rendering. safe such excavations as are left accessible.

13

(3) Xo naked lights shall be so placed that there is any risk of their igniting any wood, timber or other material underground in a mine.

41, (1) The manager shall provide and maintain to the Duty to satisfaction of a mines officer such ladders or other ways as will provide

Batisfactory furnish effectual means of exit or ascent of persons from any ladders

and ways underground workings without the assistance of

winding of exit. machinery.

(2) Where in any working served by only one shaft it appears to a mines officer that a second outlet has become neces- sary either for the safety of the workmen employed or for proper ventilation, the manager shall on being required to do so provide such second outlet.

42. At every mine where any single shaft is allowed to form Duty to the only means of ingress and egress to the persons employed dders in

provide underground, such shaft shall be provided with a proper ladder single shaft. way and a mines officer may order the provision of a proper ladder way in more than one shaft in any mine.

off under-

43. All underground entrances to shafts or other dangerous Duty to places which are temporarily or permanently abandoned shall be fence securely fenced across the whole width of the entrances so that ground ea- no person can unintentionally enter them.

44. Where Incklers are useit

trance lo abandoned workings.

Ladders.

Prohibition

against use

of in- flammable

material,

and duty in

respect of

naked

lights.

PART VIL.

Alining: Underground.

40. (1) No inflammable roofing material such as thatch or wood shall be used as roof covering on shelters erected over mouths of shafts or other deep workings.

(2) No inflammable debris or refuse shall be stored, dumped

or allowed to accumulate under ground in any mine.

(a) no ladder shall incline outwards from its base from the

face:

(b) ladders shall not be vertical without the written consent

of a mines officer;

(c) in ladder ways exceeding sixty feet in depth and having an inclination of more than seventy degroes from the horizontal, platforms shall be provided at intervals of not more than thirty feet measured vertically;

(d) no two consecutive manholes in such platforms shall be in a vertical line unless the ladders have sufficient inclination to cover the manholes;