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Duly to

Wear miners* hats of approved pattern.

Provision of first aid.

Prohibition against sleeping in a mine.

Prohibition

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76. Six months after these regulations come into operation, all persons working underground shall wear a miner's hard hind of a pattern approved by a mines officer.

or

77. (1) In any area held under licence or lease, where thirty more persons are ordinarily employed, stretchers, splints, handages and other first aid appliances shall be kept ready to be handed over to a person authorized to use them.

(2) In an underground working other than a main shaft steeper than thirty degrees from the horizontal, only stretchers of a naval pattern shall be supplied for use.

78. No person shall sleep in a mine.

79. (1) No person in a state of intoxication or in any other against in- condition which may render or be likely to render him incapable toxication.

of taking care of himself or of persons under his charge shall ber

Power to arrest in- ebriates.

Limitation

in respect

of intoxi-

cating liquor,

(a) allowed to enter a mine; or

(b) near to any working on the surface; or

(e) near to any machinery in motion within any mining

property.

(2) Any person who has entered a mine or is found in any working or below ground in an unfit state for work owing to intoxication or other like reason may be arrested by the manager or some person duly authorized by him and handed over, without delay, to the nearest police officer or police station.

(3) Except with the special permission of the manager, no intoxicating liquor shall be taken by any person into any mine or to any place or work at a mine, and no workman shall otherwise have intoxicating liquor in his possession whilst at work or at a place of work.

Prohibition 80. Subject to any directions which may be given by any against un- official of the mine- nathorized person..

(a) no workman shail, except in so far as may be necessary for the purpose of getting to and from his work, or in

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case of emergency or other justifiable cause necessarily connected with his employment-

O go into any part of any mine other than that part in which he works; or

(ii) travel to or from his work by any road other than the proper travelling road and

(b) no person other than a mines officer, workınan or official of the mine shall enter the mine except with the permis- sion of the manager.

81. (1) There shall be provided underground sufficient and Require- suitable accommodation in the way of sanitary convenience. to under.

ment aa

ground (2) Wood shall not be used in the construction of under- sanitation. ground sanitary conveniences.

#2. No person shall, without authority, pass beyond any Prohibition fence or danger signal, or open any locked door.

against

passing

danger

signals.

83, (1) No person employed in or about a mine shall nog- Prohibition ligently or wilfully-

against Dagligent behaviour.

(a) do anything which is likely to endanger life in a mine

or the safety of a mine; or

(5) omit to do anything necessary for the safety of a mine

or of the person employed therein.

(2) No person shall fight or behave in a violent manner in or about a mine.

PART IX.

Safe disposal of waste.

84. Water containing poisonous or injurious chemical solu- Duty to tions used in the treatment of ores or for other purposes shall be and to warn

fence off, effectively fenced off to prevent inadvertent access to it. Notice against boards shall be placed in suitable places to warn persons from injurious eolutions. making use thereof,