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Citation and COMMENCEMENT.

Interpretation.

1Cap. 39, nub. ker.)

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 59).

QUARRIES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS 1969.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, the Commis- sioner of Labour has made the following regulations-

PART I.

PRELIMINARY.

1. (1) These regulations may be cited as the Quarries (Safety) Regulations 1969.

(2) Parts III. IV. V and VI shall come into operation on the 1st day of October 1969.

27 In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

"approved deputy supervisor" means a person approved as a deputy supervisor of a quarry under paragraph (1) of regula- tion 6:

"approved supervisor" means a person approved as a supervisor

of a quarry under paragraph (1) of regulation 4: "banksman" means a person who, for the purpose of preventing any mechanical equipment in a quarry from going over the edge of any face, side, tip or embankment in the quarry, directs and guides the operator or driver of that equipment from the ground;

"dangerous occurrence" means an occurrence specified in the Schedule to the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations:

"Equipment Register" means the register required to be kept and maintained in a quarry under sub-paragraph (a) of para- graph (1) of regulation 14:

"mechanical equipment" means a bulldozer, dumper, excavator. grader, lorry or shovel loader, or any mobile machine which is used for the handling of any substance in a quarry,

"overburden” means any other substance which overlies the granite, porphyry or limestone which is extracted in a quarry: "person trained in first aid" means a person who-

(a) holds a current certificate of competency in first aid

issued by the St. John Ambulance Association; or (b) is a registered ourse within the meaning of the Nurses

Registration Ordinance,

and, until the 1st day of July 1970, also means a person who holds a certificate of competency in first aid issued by the St. John Ambulance Association at any time after the 1st day of October 1959;

"Quarry Inspection Register" means the register required to be kept and maintained in a quarry under sub-paragraph (8) of paragraph (1) of regulation 14:

"supervisor on duty" means the approved supervisor or the approved deputy supervisor under whose supervision any work is for the time being carried on in a quarry in accord- ance with paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 25;

"Time Register" means the register required to be kept and maintained in a quarry under sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1) of regulation 14:

"vehicle" includes any mechanical equipment; and ""work" includes the operation or driving of any mechanical equip

meal.

PART II.

APPROVAL OF SUPERVISORS and DepuTY SUPERVISORS.

3. (1) An application for the approval of any person as

a supervisor of a quarry shall be made by that person in the prescribed form.

(2) Every application made under paragraph (1) shall have a full-face photograph of the applicant affixed thereto.

(3) Any application made under paragraph (1) may specify a date, being not more than three months later than the date of the application, before which the applicant does not desire the approval to come into effect.

4 (1) Where, on an application for the approval of any person as a supervisor of a quarry, the Commissioner of Labour is satisfied that the applicant-

(a) is not less than thirty years of age:

(CKD, JBC)

Application for approval as supervisor. Form Schedule, Form 1.

Grounds for approval of supervisor.