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Revocation and replacement of regulation 47.

Revocation of regulation 49.

Amendment of regulation 55.

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#. Regulation 47 of the principal regulations is revoked and replaced by the following-

"Authorized persons only MAY 162 explosives for blasting.

47. No person shall--

(a) prepare any charge for blasting or fire any charge unless he is in possession of a valid mine blasting certificate or is otherwise authorized by the Authority; or

(b) cause or permit any person who is not in possession of a valið mine blasting certificate or otherwise authorized by the Authority to prepare any charge for blasting or fire any charge.".

Regulation 49 of the principal regulations is revoked.

10. Paragraph (1) of regulation 55 of the principal regulations is amended-

(a) by deleting sub-paragraph (d);

(b) by deleting sub-paragraph (e) and substituting the

following-

e) for a period lasting from five minutes prior 10 the blasting until all charges have been fired. warning gongs shall be beaten continuously so as to be audible at a distance of five hundred feet therefrom and red flags shall be displayed continuously at all points of access to the place of blasting and at a distance of five hundred feet from such place.";

(e) by deleting sub-paragraph (A) and substituting the

following-

"(A) no fuse shall be lit by means of an acetylene

lamp:":

(d) by deleting sub-paragraph (0) and substituting the

following-

"( if fuses are to be lit in a series by means of an igniting squib, then, except with the prior per- mission in writing of the Authority—

(i) the series shall consist of not more than ten fuses.

(ii) each fuse of the series shall be longer than the preceding fuse by not less than fifteen seconds burning time (six inches of standard safety fuse).

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(ii) the person using the igniting squib shall be accompanied by another person having a box of matches or other suitable means of imme- diately relighting the igniting squib if it should become extinguished, and

(iv) the fuses shall be lit seriatim commencing with the longest fuse:";

(e) by deleting sub-paragraph (m) and substituting the

following-

"(r) if a detonating fuse is used, the single detonator required to discharge all blasts shall not be inserted until after the warning signals required. by sub-paragraph (e) bave been commenced:": and

() by inserting the following new sub-paragraph after sub-

paragraph (m)--

"() on completion of the blasting the shot firer in cbarge thereof shall ensure that all charges have been detonated and that no unexploded explo- sives remain at the place of blasting.".

11. Regulation 56 of the principal regulations is amended- (a) by being renumbered as paragraph (1) thereof; and (6) by inserting the following new paragraph-

"(2) The register shall be compiled as soon as the holes have been loaded."*.

12. Regulation 60 of the principal regulations is amended-

(a) in paragraph (5), by deleting “. 26 or 28" and substituting

the following-

"or 26'; and

(b) io paragraph (11), by deleting "49,".

13. The Second Schedule to the principal regulations is amended, in the first colunuın----

(a) by deleting "28" and "49"; and

(b) by inserting the following after “

"IA".

Clerk of Councils,

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

11th July 1967.

Amendment of regulation 56,

Amendment of regulation 60.

Amendment of Second Schedule,