       (v) All latrines shall be so \r\n                                              arranged and maintained as to be \r\n                                              conveniently accessible to all \r\n                                              workmen.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) Cause all latrines to be \r\n                                              sufficiently ventilated, infected, \r\n                                              lighted and kept in a clean \r\n                                              condition.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) Cause all working levels, \r\n                                              drives, crosscuts and stations to \r\n                                              be examined daily as to their \r\n                                              sanitary conditions and any \r\n                                              defects therein shall be reminded \r\n                                              immediately.&nbsp; All stations and \r\n                                              latrines and the&nbsp; area about them \r\n                                              for a distance of 100 feet shall \r\n                                              be thoroughly disinfected at least \r\n                                              twice every week and the dates of \r\n                                              such disinfection shall be logged \r\n                                              by the mine captain; and these \r\n                                              records shall be open to \r\n                                              inspection by the Inspectors of \r\n                                              Mines or Medical Officer of \r\n                                              Health.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) Provide or cause to be \r\n                                              provided an adequate supply of \r\n                                              wholesome drinking water within \r\n                                              reasonable access of all workmen.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) Supply to the person who have \r\n                                              to carry on blasting operations \r\n                                              fuse igniters of a type approved \r\n                                              by the Chief Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) Cause all plant, material and \r\n                                              other things necessary for \r\n                                              compliance with the requirements \r\n                                              of these Regulations to be \r\n                                              provided and maintained in good \r\n                                              order and repair.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 15—Manager to Ensure \r\n                                              Duties are Assigned to a Competent \r\n                                              Person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              It shall be the duty of every \r\n                                              manager to ensure that a competent \r\n                                              person appointed by him shall be \r\n                                              responsible for every inspection, \r\n                                              examination or other thing \r\n                                              required under these regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 16—Appointment of Shift \r\n                                              Bosses, and Qualifications of \r\n                                              Shift Bosses.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In every mine in which more \r\n                                              than one hundred persons are \r\n                                              employed underground, the manager \r\n                                              shall appoint in writing one or \r\n                                              more competent persons to act as a \r\n                                              shift boss of bosses, and the \r\n                                              manager shall notify the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines in writing of \r\n                                              every such appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraph (6) of this regulation, \r\n                                              no person shall carry out, or be \r\n                                              permitted to carry out, the duties \r\n                                              of a shift boss unless he is the \r\n                                              holder of a certificate of \r\n                                              competency granted by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) No certificate of competency \r\n                                              shall be granted by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines unless:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the applicant is literate;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the applicant is the holder of \r\n                                              a Certificate of Competency to \r\n                                              conduct blasting operations issued \r\n                                              under regulation 177 of these \r\n                                              Regulations;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the applicant is the holder of \r\n                                              a recognised First Aid \r\n                                              Certificate;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the applicant is the holder of \r\n                                              a Mine Rescue Brigade Certificate \r\n                                              or shall have attained the age of \r\n                                              45 years;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (e) the applicant has complied \r\n                                              with the requirements of the \r\n                                              Examination Regulation;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) the applicant produces a \r\n                                              certificate from a duly qualified \r\n                                              medical practitioner that the \r\n                                              applicant has sound sight, hearing \r\n                                              and no infirmity likely to \r\n                                              interfere with the efficient \r\n                                              discharge of his duties as a shift \r\n                                              boss.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Every holder of a certificate \r\n                                              of competency granted under this \r\n                                              regulation who, in the opinion of \r\n                                              the Inspector, is guilty of \r\n                                              inattention to, or negligence in \r\n                                              the execution of his duties as a \r\n                                              shift boss as specified in these \r\n                                              Regulations or is guilty of any \r\n                                              misconduct likely to be \r\n                                              detrimental to the efficient \r\n                                              discharge of such duties, shall be \r\n                                              liable to have his certificate \r\n                                              endorsed, suspended or cancelled \r\n                                              by the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Any such endorsement, \r\n                                              suspension or cancellation as is \r\n                                              mentioned in paragraph (4) of this \r\n                                              regulation shall forthwith be \r\n                                              reported by the Inspector to the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines, and any \r\n                                              shift boss affected by such \r\n                                              endorsement, suspension or \r\n                                              cancellation may, within fourteen \r\n                                              days thereof but not otherwise, \r\n                                              appeal therefrom to the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines, whose decision \r\n                                              shall be final.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) The provisions of paragraph \r\n                                              (2) of this regulation shall not \r\n                                              apply to any person already \r\n                                              carrying out the duties of a shift \r\n                                              boss on the 1st day of March, \r\n                                              1947.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (7) In any surface or open-cast \r\n                                              mine, other than a quarry or \r\n                                              digging area, in which more than \r\n                                              one hundred persons are employed, \r\n                                              the manager shall appoint in \r\n                                              writing one or more competent \r\n                                              persons to act as a mining foreman \r\n                                              of foremen and the manager shall \r\n                                              notify the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines in writing of every such \r\n                                              appointment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraph (6) of this regulations, \r\n                                              no person shall carry out, or be \r\n                                              permitted to carry out, the duties \r\n                                              of a mining foreman unless</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) he is literate;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) he is the holder of a \r\n                                              recognised First Aid Certificate;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) if employed in any part of the \r\n                                              mine where blasting is carried \r\n                                              out, he is the holder of a \r\n                                              Certificate of Competency to \r\n                                              conduct blasting operations issued \r\n                                              under regulation 177 of these \r\n                                              Regulations;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (d) he has had two years practical \r\n                                              mining or metallurgical experience \r\n                                              exclusive of surveying or \r\n                                              sampling, save where he has \r\n                                              successfully passed through the \r\n                                              curriculum of a mining school or \r\n                                              academy recognised by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines in which case \r\n                                              he shall be exempted from one of \r\n                                              such two years;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) he has satisfied the manager \r\n                                              as the appointing authority, as to \r\n                                              his knowledge of these \r\n                                              Regulations;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) he has produced a certificate \r\n                                              from a duly qualified medical \r\n                                              practitioner that he possesses \r\n                                              sound sight and hearing and is not \r\n                                              subject to bodily or mental \r\n                                              infirmity likely to interfere with \r\n                                              the efficient discharge of his \r\n                                              duties as a mining foreman.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) Every mining foreman appointed \r\n                                              under this regulation who, in the \r\n                                              opinion of the Inspector is guilty \r\n                                              of inattention to, or negligence \r\n                                              in the execution of his duties as \r\n                                              a mining foreman as specified in \r\n                                              these Regulations, or is guilty of \r\n                                              any misconduct likely to be \r\n                                              detrimental to the efficient \r\n                                              discharge of such duties shall be \r\n                                              liable to have his appointment \r\n                                              terminated by the manager at the \r\n                                              request of the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (10) Any such termination called \r\n                                              for by the Inspector as is \r\n                                              mentioned in paragraph (9) of this \r\n                                              regulation shall forthwith be \r\n                                              reported by the Inspector to the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines, and any \r\n                                              mining foreman affected by such \r\n                                              termination may, within fourteen \r\n                                              days thereof but not otherwise, \r\n                                              appeal therefrom to the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines, whose decision \r\n                                              shall be final.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 17—Manager, Underground \r\n                                              Manager or Mine Captain not to Act \r\n                                              as Shift Boss or Mining Foreman.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No manager, underground manager or \r\n                                              mine captain shall regularly \r\n                                              undertake the duties of a shift \r\n                                              boss or mining foreman prescribed \r\n                                              by these regulations, except with \r\n                                              the written permission of the \r\n                                              Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 18—Duties of Shift \r\n                                              Bosses and Mining Foremen.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every shift boss shall take \r\n                                              charge during a shift of a section \r\n                                              of the underground working of a \r\n                                              mine, and such section shall be \r\n                                              clearly defined in writing by the \r\n                                              manager, underground manager or \r\n                                              mine captain to the shift boss \r\n                                              concerned.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every shift boss or mining \r\n                                              foreman shall be responsible for \r\n                                              ensuring the proper observance of \r\n                                              the requirements of these \r\n                                              Regulations by all persons working \r\n                                              under him and shall as soon as \r\n                                              practicable report to the manager, \r\n                                              underground manager or mine \r\n                                              captain any contraventions \r\n                                              thereof. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The fact that the place where the \r\n                                              contravention occurs, or that the \r\n                                              person or persons concerned in \r\n                                              such contravention was not or were \r\n                                              not under his immediate control \r\n                                              shall not relieve the shift boss \r\n                                              from the responsibility of \r\n                                              reporting such contravention.&nbsp; \r\n                                              Every shift boss shall further, \r\n                                              specially report whether water is \r\n                                              being used in accordance with the \r\n                                              requirements of these Regulations \r\n                                              for the elimination of dust and \r\n                                              fumes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every shift boss shall at \r\n                                              least once during his shift \r\n                                              inspect every portion of the \r\n                                              section of the mine assigned to \r\n                                              him in which persons are working \r\n                                              or through which they may have \r\n                                              occasion to pass, and shall \r\n                                              ascertain the conditions thereof \r\n                                              as regards ventilation, \r\n                                              sanitation, the presence of gases \r\n                                              and dust and the state of the \r\n                                              hanging wall, footwall and sides, \r\n                                              and generally so far as the safety \r\n                                              and health of persons are \r\n                                              concerned.&nbsp; The fact that any \r\n                                              working place or places in his \r\n                                              section is or are being worked on \r\n                                              contract shall not relieve the \r\n                                              shift boss of the responsibility \r\n                                              of visiting such working place or \r\n                                              places.&nbsp; When the regular shift \r\n                                              boss is absent, the working places \r\n                                              of the section shall be inspected \r\n                                              by either the mine captain or \r\n                                              another shift boss.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A shift boss shall be \r\n                                              physically present in each shift \r\n                                              boss''s section in which men are \r\n                                              working and shall be responsible \r\n                                              for their whereabouts and \r\n                                              evacuation in an emergency.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Every shift boss or mining \r\n                                              foreman shall, at the completion \r\n                                              of his shift, record in ink, in a \r\n                                              book to be provided by the manager \r\n                                              for the purpose and to be kept in \r\n                                              a place appointed by the manager, \r\n                                              all the particulars of—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the conditions in which he \r\n                                              found each working place and \r\n                                              travelling way;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) such breaches of these \r\n                                              Regulations as may have taken \r\n                                              place during his shift; and </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) such instructions for the \r\n                                              purpose of securing safety or \r\n                                              health of persons as he may have \r\n                                              given during his shift;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Such record shall be examined and \r\n                                              countersigned by the manager, \r\n                                              underground manager or mine \r\n                                              captain at least once in every \r\n                                              day, and shall be open for \r\n                                              inspection at all reasonable hours \r\n                                              by any official of the Mines \r\n                                              Department.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 19—Continuing \r\n                                              Responsibility of Manager, Under \r\n                                              Ground Manager and Mine Captain.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The appointment of a shift boss or \r\n                                              mining foreman shall not be taken \r\n                                              to relieve the manager, \r\n                                              underground manager or mine \r\n                                              captain of any personal \r\n                                              responsibility under these \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 20—Competent Persons to \r\n                                              Inspect Working Daily.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In every mine in which the number \r\n                                              of person employed underground \r\n                                              does not exceed one hundred, the \r\n                                              manager shall appoint in writing \r\n                                              one or more competent persons \r\n                                              whose duty it shall be to inspect \r\n                                              at least once during each shift \r\n                                              every part of the mine in which \r\n                                              persons are working, or through \r\n                                              which they may have occasion to \r\n                                              pass, for the purpose of \r\n                                              ascertaining the condition thereof \r\n                                              in regard to ventilation, state of \r\n                                              roof and sides and general safety; \r\n                                              so however that the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines may require the \r\n                                              appointment of a shift boss if he \r\n                                              considers that the conditions \r\n                                              prevailing underground at such a \r\n                                              mine render the appointment \r\n                                              necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 21—Appointment of Fire \r\n                                              Patrols.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The manager shall appoint in \r\n                                              writing an adequate number of fire \r\n                                              patrols, each patrol consisting of \r\n                                              not less than two persons, whose \r\n                                              duties will be to pass through and \r\n                                              examine, for the purpose of \r\n                                              prevention of, abatement of, and \r\n                                              precaution against fire, at least \r\n                                              once during each shift, all \r\n                                              underground travelling ways \r\n                                              containing timber and through \r\n                                              which persons may pass; as also \r\n                                              for the purpose of ensuring that \r\n                                              any other places containing timber \r\n                                              or other combustible material are \r\n                                              securely fenced off to prevent \r\n                                              access thereto by any unauthorised \r\n                                              person:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided always that this \r\n                                              regulation shall not apply during \r\n                                              normal working shift to those \r\n                                              sections of a mine which are \r\n                                              regularly inspected under the \r\n                                              provision of paragraph (3) of \r\n                                              regulation 18, or regulation 20 of \r\n                                              these Regulations.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 22—Machinery to be \r\n                                              under Charge of Competent Resident \r\n                                              Engineer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) At every mine or works having \r\n                                              plant developing more than 250 \r\n                                              horse-power, or on which any unit \r\n                                              of the plant develops more than 75 \r\n                                              horse-power, all boilers, engines \r\n                                              and other machinery, including \r\n                                              electrical apparatus and \r\n                                              installations, shall be under the \r\n                                              general charge of a competent \r\n                                              resident engineer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Competent Engineer to Inspect \r\n                                              Regularly.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) At every mine or works, having \r\n                                              plant developing less than 250 \r\n                                              horse-power or on which the \r\n                                              principal unit of the plant \r\n                                              develops less than 75 horse-power, \r\n                                              all boilers, engines and other \r\n                                              machinery, including electrical \r\n                                              apparatus and installations, shall \r\n                                              be inspected regularly by a \r\n                                              competent engineer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Qualifications of Resident \r\n                                              Engineer.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person shall carry out, or \r\n                                              be permitted to carry out, on any \r\n                                              mine or works the duties of a \r\n                                              resident engineer, unless he \r\n                                              proves to the satisfaction of the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector or Mines that he \r\n                                              is the holder of a degree or a \r\n                                              recognised certificate in either \r\n                                              mechanical or electrical \r\n                                              engineering and, in addition has \r\n                                              had at least three years practical \r\n                                              experience since obtaining such \r\n                                              degree or certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Qualifications of inspecting \r\n                                              engineer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) No person shall carry out, or \r\n                                              be permitted to carry out, on any \r\n                                              mine or works, the duties of an \r\n                                              inspecting engineer under \r\n                                              paragraph (2) of this regulation, \r\n                                              unless he proves to the \r\n                                              satisfaction of the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines that he is the \r\n                                              holder of a degree or a recognised \r\n                                              certificate in either mechanical \r\n                                              or electrical engineering and, in \r\n                                              addition has had at least two \r\n                                              years practical experience since \r\n                                              obtaining such degree or \r\n                                              certificate or; he has \r\n                                              satisfactory evidence of having \r\n                                              served a full term of indenture as \r\n                                              an apprentice in a mechanical or \r\n                                              electrical trade and has had a \r\n                                              minimum of five years practical \r\n                                              experience in such trade since \r\n                                              completing such apprenticeship.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The provisions of paragraphs \r\n                                              (3) and (4) of this regulation \r\n                                              shall not apply to any person \r\n                                              already carrying out the duties of \r\n                                              a resident or inspecting engineer, \r\n                                              or who has carried out such duties \r\n                                              prior to the date of these \r\n                                              Regulations coming into force.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Any appointment under this \r\n                                              regulation shall be in writing and \r\n                                              notification thereof shall be made \r\n                                              in writing to the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 3—PLANS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 23—Exemptions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Part 3 of these Regulations shall \r\n                                              not apply to quarries and digging \r\n                                              areas.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 24—Mine Plans.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The following plans shall be kept \r\n                                              at every mine:—</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A general surface plan, or a \r\n                                              true copy thereof, on tracing \r\n                                              cloth of the mining land or lands \r\n                                              showing the boundaries of such \r\n                                              mining land or lands when this can \r\n                                              be shown on a plan of convenient \r\n                                              size; the outcrops and dip of the \r\n                                              reef or reefs or other mineral or \r\n                                              alluvial deposits known or being \r\n                                              worked, all open-cast or surface \r\n                                              workings, shafts, boreholes, \r\n                                              reservoirs, tailing sites, \r\n                                              railways, permanent pipe lines, \r\n                                              aerial cables ways, electric power \r\n                                              lines, and tramways erected or \r\n                                              constructed for the use of the \r\n                                              mine, and all buildings, \r\n                                              watercourses, and other surface \r\n                                              objects which it is water courses, \r\n                                              and other surface objects which it \r\n                                              is needful to protect against \r\n                                              undermining within the area of the \r\n                                              surface of the land required for \r\n                                              mining purposes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This plan shall be brought up to \r\n                                              date biannually during the months \r\n                                              of June and December in each year \r\n                                              and the information given shall be \r\n                                              correct.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) (a) An underground plan, or \r\n                                              true copy thereof on tracing \r\n                                              cloth, showing clearly the \r\n                                              boundaries of the mining land or \r\n                                              lands when this can be shown on a \r\n                                              plan of convenient size, also all \r\n                                              shafts, drives, winzes, raises, \r\n                                              crosscuts, stopes, safety pillars, \r\n                                              stations, underground explosives \r\n                                              magazines shall be clearly shown \r\n                                              and all veins, spurs, or leaders \r\n                                              that are being exploited, faults \r\n                                              and dykes, and datum levels, and \r\n                                              important changes in the dip of \r\n                                              the reef or mineral deposit shall \r\n                                              be indicated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where different reefs or mineral \r\n                                              deposits lie one above the other \r\n                                              the workings on each reef or \r\n                                              mineral deposit shall be shown on \r\n                                              a separate plan by special request \r\n                                              of the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This plan shall at all times be \r\n                                              correct to the last measuring date \r\n                                              and in any case shall be brought \r\n                                              up to date every three months.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) An underground plan, or true \r\n                                              copy thereof on tracing cloth \r\n                                              showing clearly the system of \r\n                                              ventilation throughout the mine, \r\n                                              the direction of main air currents \r\n                                              and positions of doors, stoppings, \r\n                                              crossing, and main ventilating \r\n                                              appliances.&nbsp; Intake or downcast \r\n                                              currents to be shown on the plan \r\n                                              in blue wash and return or upcast \r\n                                              currents in pink wash.&nbsp; The plan \r\n                                              shall be kept up to date, and \r\n                                              shall be on the same scale as that \r\n                                              of the plan required by the last \r\n                                              preceding paragraph.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A general underground plan or \r\n                                              true copy thereof similar to the \r\n                                              one mentioned in paragraph (2) of \r\n                                              this regulation, but drawn to the \r\n                                              same scale as the general surface \r\n                                              plan mentioned in paragraph (1) of \r\n                                              this regulation.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This plan shall at all times be \r\n                                              correct to the last measuring date \r\n                                              and in any case shall be brought \r\n                                              up to date every six months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) A plan or true copy thereof on \r\n                                              tracing cloth, showing the \r\n                                              transverse section or sections of \r\n                                              the workings and drawn through the \r\n                                              shaft of shafts of the property, \r\n                                              indicating clearly the dip of the \r\n                                              strata and reef or other mineral \r\n                                              deposit, and any dislocation of \r\n                                              strata, intrusive rock, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              This plan shall at all times be \r\n                                              correct to the last measuring date \r\n                                              and in any case shall be brought \r\n                                              up to date bi-annually in June and \r\n                                              December of each year.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) (i) Where a reef or other \r\n                                              mineral deposit has an average dip \r\n                                              of more than 60 degrees, a plan or \r\n                                              true copy thereof on tracing cloth \r\n                                              showing vertical projection shall \r\n                                              be made of the mine workings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) Graphical records consisting \r\n                                              of a section and site plan shall \r\n                                              be kept of all boreholes drilled, \r\n                                              whether on the surface or \r\n                                              underground.&nbsp; Such records shall \r\n                                              show the geological nature and \r\n                                              widths of strata passed through, \r\n                                              the assay values, of any reef or \r\n                                              other mineral deposit intersected, \r\n                                              also any dips and faults \r\n                                              indicated, and where boreholes \r\n                                              have been surveyed and deflections \r\n                                              shall be shown.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) Paragraphs (1), (3), (4) and \r\n                                              (5) (i) of this regulation shall \r\n                                              not apply to mines which have not \r\n                                              started to produce gold or other \r\n                                              minerals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 25—Scale of Plans.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The plans provided for in \r\n                                              paragraphs (1) and (3) of the last \r\n                                              preceding regulation shall be laid \r\n                                              down on a scale of either one in \r\n                                              four hundred and eighty, one in \r\n                                              nine hundred and sixty, one in \r\n                                              twelve hundred, and any common \r\n                                              multiple of one in two hundred and \r\n                                              forty but not exceeding one in two \r\n                                              thousand four hundred, and the \r\n                                              underground plans provided for in \r\n                                              paragraphs (2), (4) and (5) of the \r\n                                              last preceeding regulation on a \r\n                                              scale of one in two thousand and \r\n                                              forty, one in four hundred and \r\n                                              eighty or one in nine hundred and \r\n                                              sixty:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided, however, that in the \r\n                                              case of a mine having no \r\n                                              underground workings, the plans, \r\n                                              referred to in paragraph (1) of \r\n                                              the last preceding regulation may \r\n                                              be on a scale of one in six \r\n                                              hundred and twenty-five, one in \r\n                                              twelve hundred and fifty, or one \r\n                                              in two thousand five hundred.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 26—Measurements.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In all mine surveys measurements \r\n                                              shall be made in English feet and \r\n                                              decimals of a foot.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 27—Co-ordinates and \r\n                                              Records of Surveys.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The co-ordinates of the \r\n                                              surface and underground surveys \r\n                                              shall be referred, where \r\n                                              practicable, to the same axis as \r\n                                              the co-ordinates of the mining \r\n                                              land survey on which the mine is \r\n                                              situated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The co-ordinates of mining lands \r\n                                              beacons are obtainable from the \r\n                                              Government Chief Survey Officer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The records of all surveys \r\n                                              made in connection with a mine \r\n                                              shall be entered into a book set \r\n                                              aside for that purpose, and these \r\n                                              records shall be kept up to date.&nbsp; \r\n                                              The inspector shall have the right \r\n                                              to examine this book.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 28—Permanent Bench Mark \r\n                                              Compulsory.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              On all mining properties a \r\n                                              permanent bench mark shall be \r\n                                              established: should there be no \r\n                                              suitable permanent stone structure \r\n                                              one shall be built for this \r\n                                              purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              All levels taken above and below \r\n                                              ground shall be referred to a \r\n                                              plane above this bench mark: the \r\n                                              height of this plan shall be fixed \r\n                                              in each district by the Government \r\n                                              Chief Survey Officer and all \r\n                                              elevations shall be stated in feet \r\n                                              and decimals of a foot below this \r\n                                              plane.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The plans on all surface mines \r\n                                              shall, however, be referred to a \r\n                                              datum above mean sea level.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 29—Plans to be Brought \r\n                                              up to Date and Deposited with the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Copies of plans mentioned in \r\n                                              paragraph (1) and (3) of \r\n                                              regulation 24 shall be deposited \r\n                                              with the Chief Inspector of Mines \r\n                                              and shall be brought up to date to \r\n                                              the measuring date in December of \r\n                                              each year for which purpose the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines shall \r\n                                              send to the manager such copies at \r\n                                              any time subsequent to 1st day of \r\n                                              February and they shall not be \r\n                                              retained by the manager for a \r\n                                              longer period than one month.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Managers of Mines shall \r\n                                              deposit with the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines at his special request a \r\n                                              true copy of any plan or section \r\n                                              relating to the mine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 30—Plans Confidential.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No copies of this plan referred to \r\n                                              in this Part of any information \r\n                                              concerning them shall be given by \r\n                                              the Mines Department to any \r\n                                              unauthorised person nor shall such \r\n                                              plans be opened to the inspection \r\n                                              of any such person without the \r\n                                              permission of the mine manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 31—Workings must be \r\n                                              Surveyed before Abandoning.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Before any mine is abandoned \r\n                                              or closed down the plans required \r\n                                              by regulation 24 shall be brought \r\n                                              up to date and copies thereof \r\n                                              shall be deposited with the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the case of any part of a \r\n                                              mine being abandoned, the \r\n                                              underground plan shall first be \r\n                                              completed to date and a copy \r\n                                              thereof deposited with the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines. All \r\n                                              underground workings shall first \r\n                                              be surveyed before being permitted \r\n                                              to become inaccessible.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 32—Pernalty on Breach.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The manager of a mine who \r\n                                              fails to keep correct plans as \r\n                                              prescribed in these Regulations or \r\n                                              neglects to deposit with the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines within the \r\n                                              prescribed periods true copies of \r\n                                              such plans or the extensions in \r\n                                              accordance with these Regulations \r\n                                              shall be liable to a penalty, and \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines shall \r\n                                              have the power to cause such plan \r\n                                              or plans of the mine to be made or \r\n                                              extended at the expense of the \r\n                                              owner of the mine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All plans or copies of plans \r\n                                              deposited with the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines under these Regulations, \r\n                                              and also when they are brought up \r\n                                              to date, shall be signed and dated \r\n                                              by the surveyor and the manager.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 33—Withholdings or \r\n                                              Concealing Plans, Faulty Plans.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The manager of a mine who \r\n                                              withholds any portion of a mine \r\n                                              plan, or conceals any part of the \r\n                                              workings or knowingly and wilfully \r\n                                              allows these mines plans to be or \r\n                                              remain incorrect, shall be guilty \r\n                                              of an offence against these \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 34—Rules by Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chief Inspector of Mines shall \r\n                                              have the power to make rules from \r\n                                              time to time with regard to mine \r\n                                              plans for the purpose of securing \r\n                                              uniformity in colour, and in the \r\n                                              use of conventional signs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 4—RETURNS FROM MINES AND \r\n                                              WORKS FOR STATISTICAL PURPOSES</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 35—Monthly and \r\n                                              Quarterly Returns.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">The manager of a mine, and the \r\n                                              manager of any works from which \r\n                                              mineral products are obtained \r\n                                              shall forward to the office of the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines, the \r\n                                              following complete and correct \r\n                                              returns:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Quarterly—Labour employed and mine \r\n                                              development</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Monthly—Amount and value of the \r\n                                              output of minerals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              These returns must reach the \r\n                                              office of the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines not later than the 15th day \r\n                                              of the month immediately following \r\n                                              the end of the period to which the \r\n                                              returns relate, and they must be \r\n                                              written intelligibly in such form \r\n                                              as may from time to time be \r\n                                              prescribed for that purpose by the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 36—Forms Obtainable \r\n                                              from Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Persons who, in terms of the \r\n                                              preceding regulations, have to \r\n                                              make monthly and quarterly returns \r\n                                              may obtain the necessary forms for \r\n                                              one or more months in advance at \r\n                                              the office of the Inspector either \r\n                                              by personal application or written \r\n                                              request through the post and are \r\n                                              responsible for the consequences \r\n                                              should they neglect to provide \r\n                                              themselves with the necessary \r\n                                              forms in time.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 37—Other Returns to be \r\n                                              Forwarded if Required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Besides the returns mentioned in \r\n                                              regulation 35 the person named \r\n                                              therein must provide the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines at his request \r\n                                              from time to time with such other \r\n                                              returns and information as may \r\n                                              reasonably be required for the \r\n                                              purpose of statistical information \r\n                                              and the preparation of the Mines \r\n                                              Department annual report, and the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines shall \r\n                                              then fix a reasonable time within \r\n                                              which the returns or information \r\n                                              so requested must be provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 38—Returns to be Sworn \r\n                                              if Required.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Chief Inspector of Mines has \r\n                                              the right, should he deem it \r\n                                              desirable, to require that the \r\n                                              accuracy of the returns mentioned \r\n                                              in this Part be sworn to.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 39—False Returns an \r\n                                              Offence.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Anyone who intentionally sends a \r\n                                              false statements or who refuses to \r\n                                              take the oath mentioned in the \r\n                                              preceding regulation, shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence against these \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 5—PROTECTION OF THE SURFACE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 40—Protection of \r\n                                              Surface Subsidences or Cavities.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where underground mining \r\n                                              operations have caused subsidences \r\n                                              or cavities on the surface, or \r\n                                              where such are likely to occur, \r\n                                              such places shall be securely \r\n                                              fenced in and conspicuous notice \r\n                                              boards put up to warn persons off.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Wherever in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines it may be \r\n                                              necessary to protect the surface \r\n                                              of a mine or of any ground \r\n                                              adjoining such mine, or to protect \r\n                                              buildings, roads, railways, or any \r\n                                              structure whatever situated \r\n                                              thereon, it shall be lawful for \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines by \r\n                                              writing under his hand to prohibit \r\n                                              the owner mining in any portion of \r\n                                              such mine save under such \r\n                                              restrictions and subject to such \r\n                                              conditions as the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines may impose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (3) In no case shall any person \r\n                                              carry on mining or quarrying \r\n                                              operations under or near public \r\n                                              railways, public roads, or within \r\n                                              the boundaries of a town without \r\n                                              having given notice in writing to \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines of \r\n                                              his intention to do so and \r\n                                              obtained his permission.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where mining operations have \r\n                                              already taken place and where in \r\n                                              the opinion of the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines it may be necessary to \r\n                                              protect the surface of a mine or \r\n                                              of any ground adjoining such mine \r\n                                              or any structure or object on or \r\n                                              near such mine, some adequate \r\n                                              means of support shall be provided \r\n                                              to such extent and in such \r\n                                              positions as the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines may direct by notice in \r\n                                              writing to the owner of such mine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) No safety pillars or other \r\n                                              support or any portion thereof \r\n                                              shall be removed except with the \r\n                                              permission in writing of the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines, and then only \r\n                                              to such extent and under such \r\n                                              conditions as he may impose.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 41—Filling in or \r\n                                              Fencing Disused Trenches, Pits or \r\n                                              Excavations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) If in the opinion of the \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines, disused \r\n                                              trenches, pits, or other \r\n                                              excavations are dangerous to life, \r\n                                              or endanger public traffic, he may \r\n                                              order them to be filled in with \r\n                                              ground to the level of the surface \r\n                                              or securely fenced in by the owner \r\n                                              of the mine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) If the owner neglects to \r\n                                              comply with such order he shall be \r\n                                              guilty of an offence against these \r\n                                              Regulations.&nbsp; The Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines, in the case of such \r\n                                              neglect, shall have the right to \r\n                                              have such trenches, pits, or other \r\n                                              excavations fenced or filled up or \r\n                                              otherwise protected at the expense \r\n                                              of the owner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 42—Protection of Shafts \r\n                                              not in use and Elevated Platforms, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The month of every shaft or \r\n                                              entrance to a mine which for the \r\n                                              time being is out of use or used \r\n                                              only as an airway, and the \r\n                                              approach of every open working not \r\n                                              being ordinary trenches, pits, or \r\n                                              other excavations, and all \r\n                                              dangerously elevated and exposed \r\n                                              platforms and gangways, shall be \r\n                                              kept securely fenced or otherwise \r\n                                              protected.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 43—Inflammable Refuse \r\n                                              not to Accumulate about Headgear \r\n                                              or Buildings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Inflammable refuse shall not be \r\n                                              allowed to accumulate in or about \r\n                                              any headgear or any building the \r\n                                              loss of which by fire may endanger \r\n                                              the mine entrance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 44—Water Containing \r\n                                              Injurious Matter.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Water containing poisonous or \r\n                                              injurious chemical solutions must \r\n                                              be effectually fenced off to \r\n                                              prevent inadvertent access to it, \r\n                                              and notice boards shall be put up \r\n                                              on suitable places to warn persons \r\n                                              from making use of water.&nbsp; In no \r\n                                              case may water containing any \r\n                                              injurious matter in suspension or \r\n                                              solution be permitted to escape \r\n                                              without having been previously \r\n                                              innocuous.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 6—SURFACE WORKINGS</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 45—Precautions to be \r\n                                              taken in Digging Trenches, Pits or \r\n                                              other Excavations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In digging trenches, pits and \r\n                                              other excavations, precautions \r\n                                              shall be taken either by filling \r\n                                              up or fencing the same, to prevent \r\n                                              persons inadvertently falling into \r\n                                              or entering such trenches, pits, \r\n                                              and other excavations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 46—Danger from Falls.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The manager shall be responsible \r\n                                              for ensuring that any mining \r\n                                              operations carried on are so \r\n                                              carried on as to avoid danger from \r\n                                              falls.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 47—Safe Means of Access \r\n                                              to be Provided and Maintained.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              There shall be provided and \r\n                                              maintained safe means of access to \r\n                                              every place at a surface working \r\n                                              at which any person has at any \r\n                                              time to work.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 48—Life Line.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No person shall work near the edge \r\n                                              of any ledge, bench or other place \r\n                                              which is not fenced and from which \r\n                                              he may fall 10 feet or more unless \r\n                                              he has been provided with a \r\n                                              suitable life line for his \r\n                                              protection and he has at the \r\n                                              beginning of that period of work \r\n                                              satisfied himself of the safety of \r\n                                              the life line and he is secured by \r\n                                              it.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 49—Overhanging \r\n                                              Forbidden.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) No face or sides of a surface \r\n                                              working or any travelling way \r\n                                              thereon shall be so worked as to \r\n                                              cause any overhanging: Provided \r\n                                              that if an Inspector is satisfied \r\n                                              with respect to a particular \r\n                                              surface working that fulfilment of \r\n                                              the foregoing requirement is \r\n                                              unnecessary to secure the safety \r\n                                              of persons employed thereat, he \r\n                                              may, by notice in writing \r\n                                              addressed to the manager of the \r\n                                              surface working, exempt the \r\n                                              surface working or such part \r\n                                              thereof as may be specified in the \r\n                                              notice from that requirement.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) In workings of clay, sand, \r\n                                              gravel or other types of \r\n                                              unconsolidated material, no person \r\n                                              shall undercut the face or cause \r\n                                              or permit such undercutting of the \r\n                                              face to take place, and no \r\n                                              vertical face shall have a height \r\n                                              of more than 10 feet or such \r\n                                              height as an Inspector may direct, \r\n                                              but such face shall be worked in \r\n                                              terraces or benches or at any \r\n                                              angle of safety.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) The provisions of \r\n                                              sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of this \r\n                                              regulation shall not apply when \r\n                                              the material is excavated or \r\n                                              worked solely by suitable \r\n                                              mechanical equipment which does \r\n                                              not expose the operator of such \r\n                                              equipment to danger or which does \r\n                                              not necessitate workmen working in \r\n                                              a hazardous position at the toe of \r\n                                              the face.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 50—Other Driver to Ride \r\n                                              on Dumpers, etc. Where no \r\n                                              Passenger Seat.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person apart from the driver \r\n                                              shall ride on any earth moving \r\n                                              machinery such as a dumper, \r\n                                              bulldozer or scraper where there \r\n                                              is no passenger seat provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This regulation shall not prevent \r\n                                              a person from standing in the cab \r\n                                              of an excavator provided there is \r\n                                              no danger of his falling or from \r\n                                              moving machinery.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 51—Terrace or Benches.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              When an Inspector considers that \r\n                                              the face of any surface working \r\n                                              should be worked in terraces or \r\n                                              benches in order to ensure the \r\n                                              safety thereof, he shall, by \r\n                                              notice in writing addressed to the \r\n                                              manager, require such terraces or \r\n                                              benches to be cut as he may \r\n                                              specify.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 52—Loose Material and \r\n                                              Stones to be Cleared.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All loose material or stones \r\n                                              at or near the top of the face or \r\n                                              sides of a surface working shall \r\n                                              be cleared to a distance of 10 \r\n                                              feet or such distance as an \r\n                                              Inspector may direct from the edge \r\n                                              of the working.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All trees at or near the top \r\n                                              of the face or sides of a surface \r\n                                              working shall be cleared back to a \r\n                                              sufficient distance to avoid \r\n                                              danger from falls.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 53—Surface Working to \r\n                                              be Inspected by Competent Person \r\n                                              Appointed by Manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The manager of every surface \r\n                                              working shall appoint in writing \r\n                                              some competent person or persons \r\n                                              whose duty it shall be to—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) inspect daily every working \r\n                                              place and every travelling way \r\n                                              used by persons employed at the \r\n                                              surface working for the purposes \r\n                                              of that work or of getting to or \r\n                                              from their working places;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) inspect daily the top of the \r\n                                              surface working and examine daily \r\n                                              any face, side or overburden of \r\n                                              the surface working which may \r\n                                              cause danger at any such place or \r\n                                              travelling way;&nbsp; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) make a record of every such \r\n                                              examination which shall be entered \r\n                                              daily in ink in a book provided \r\n                                              for the purpose and signed by the \r\n                                              person making the examination. \r\n                                              This book shall be open to \r\n                                              inspection at all reasonable hours \r\n                                              by any official of the Mines \r\n                                              Department.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 7—SHAFTS AND UNDERGROUND \r\n                                              TRAVELLING-WAYS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 54—Two Outlets from \r\n                                              Mine to Surface Necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) In connection with every mine \r\n                                              there shall be at least two shafts \r\n                                              or outlets to the surface, with \r\n                                              which every mineral deposit for \r\n                                              the time being worked in the mine, \r\n                                              shall have a communication of not \r\n                                              less then 3 feet wide and 3 feet \r\n                                              high, so that such shafts or \r\n                                              outlets shall afford separate \r\n                                              means of ingress or egress \r\n                                              available to all persons employed \r\n                                              in such mine: Provided that it \r\n                                              shall not be necessary for such \r\n                                              shafts or outlets to be suitated \r\n                                              on the same mine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Such shafts or outlets must \r\n                                              not lead to the surface in one and \r\n                                              the same shaft shed, and must not \r\n                                              at any point be nearer to one \r\n                                              another than 30 feet.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 55—Responsibility for \r\n                                              Maintenance of Outlets.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In any case in which the two \r\n                                              outlets or part of them do not \r\n                                              belong to the same mine, the \r\n                                              manager of the respective mines \r\n                                              shall be responsible for the \r\n                                              outlet or part of it in their \r\n                                              respective mines being kept in \r\n                                              proper repair, and should any \r\n                                              obstruction arise in any such \r\n                                              outlet or anything occur in such \r\n                                              mine to jeopardise the safety of \r\n                                              the outlet, that fact shall be \r\n                                              immediately reported to the \r\n                                              manager or managers of the other \r\n                                              mine or mines.&nbsp; Should either of \r\n                                              the two outlets or part of them be \r\n                                              situated in an abandoned mine or \r\n                                              mines, the manager or managers of \r\n                                              the working mine or mines shall be \r\n                                              jointly and severally responsible \r\n                                              for the proper maintenance and \r\n                                              repair of such outlet or outlets.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Proper arrangements to enable \r\n                                              workmen to descend and to ascend \r\n                                              from the mine shall be provided at \r\n                                              each shaft or outlet and kept \r\n                                              constantly available for use.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 56—Exemption.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The foregoing provisions with \r\n                                              respect to two shafts or outlets \r\n                                              shall not apply—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) to any mine in which one of \r\n                                              the shafts or outlets has \r\n                                              temporarily become unavailable to \r\n                                              the persons employed in the mine \r\n                                              as long as every effort is being \r\n                                              made by the manager to repair the \r\n                                              damage and he has so informed the \r\n                                              inspector,</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) to any mine in which not more \r\n                                              than ten persons are at any one \r\n                                              time employed underground in, or \r\n                                              in any working connected with, any \r\n                                              shaft or outlet which is not \r\n                                              connected with any other shaft or \r\n                                              outlet,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) to any mine in which more than \r\n                                              ten but not more than thirty \r\n                                              persons are at any one time \r\n                                              employed underground in, or in any \r\n                                              working connected with any shaft \r\n                                              or outlet, if such a mine is \r\n                                              exempted in writing by an \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) to any mine whether \r\n                                              prospecting or producing, so, \r\n                                              however, that no working shall be \r\n                                              extended beyond 600 feet from the \r\n                                              last through connection unless \r\n                                              exempted in writing by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines under such \r\n                                              conditions as he may impose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 57—Ladder-ways and \r\n                                              Fenced Platforms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every headgear shall be provided \r\n                                              with a properly constructed \r\n                                              ladder-way up to the top of the \r\n                                              frame, and all places on or within \r\n                                              the headgear at which persons are \r\n                                              regularly required to work shall \r\n                                              be provided with fenced platforms.\r\n                                              </span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In inclined shafts the ladder-way \r\n                                              on the headgear shall be erected \r\n                                              on the inclined slope leading to \r\n                                              the mouth of the shaft, and it \r\n                                              shall be railed off from the \r\n                                              hauling ways.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 58—Ladder-ways to be \r\n                                              Provided in all Shifts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) Ladder-ways shall be provided \r\n                                              in all shafts having an \r\n                                              inclination of more than 30 \r\n                                              degrees from the horizontal to \r\n                                              within such a distance of the \r\n                                              bottom as will secure them from \r\n                                              damage in blasting and, in shafts \r\n                                              having an inclination of more than \r\n                                              40 degrees from the horizontal \r\n                                              from the end of such ladder-ways \r\n                                              chains or chain ladders shall be \r\n                                              extended to the bottom of the \r\n                                              shaft:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that, unless special \r\n                                              circumstances, exemptions from the \r\n                                              provisions of this regulation may \r\n                                              be granted with the written \r\n                                              consent of, and under conditions \r\n                                              laid down by the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) All vertical and steeply \r\n                                              inclined workings in use shall be \r\n                                              connected with the levels by means \r\n                                              of proper ladder-ways separated \r\n                                              from the rock passes:&nbsp; Provided \r\n                                              that this section shall not apply \r\n                                              to under-hand stopes which are so \r\n                                              worked that the face of the stope \r\n                                              does not exceed an angle of 40 \r\n                                              degrees&nbsp; from the horizontal.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In under-hand stopes in which \r\n                                              the angle of the face of the \r\n                                              stopes exceeds 40 degrees from the \r\n                                              horizontal, chains or chain \r\n                                              ladders shall be provided for the \r\n                                              use of persons employed on the \r\n                                              face of the stope.&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 59—Platforms to be \r\n                                              Provided in Ladder-ways.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In main travelling ways \r\n                                              exceeding 60 feet in depth and \r\n                                              having an inclination of more than \r\n                                              70 degrees from the horizontal, \r\n                                              resting places (platforms) shall \r\n                                              be provided at distances apart of \r\n                                              not more than 30 feet.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The ladders shall not be erected \r\n                                              at a greater inclination than 80 \r\n                                              degrees from the horizontal, and \r\n                                              shall be so placed as to cover the \r\n                                              manholes of the resting places.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Under exceptional \r\n                                              circumstances ladders may, with \r\n                                              the written consent of the \r\n                                              Inspector, be fixed vertically.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) All ladders used in mines \r\n                                              shall be constructed sufficiently \r\n                                              strong and be securely fastened to \r\n                                              the timbering or sides of the \r\n                                              shaft or working, and maintained \r\n                                              in proper repair.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The fixing of ladders in \r\n                                              travelling-ways in an overhanging \r\n                                              position is prohibited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (5) The ladder shall project at \r\n                                              least 3 feet above the mouth of \r\n                                              the shaft or working and every \r\n                                              resting place therein, or strong \r\n                                              hand rails shall be fixed at such \r\n                                              places.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 60—Travelling-ways in \r\n                                              Steeply Inclined Shafts to be \r\n                                              Bratticed Off.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In vertical or steeply inclined \r\n                                              shafts or winzes the compartment \r\n                                              used as a foot travelling-way \r\n                                              shall be securely bratticed off to \r\n                                              the satisfaction of the Inspector \r\n                                              from the other compartments.&nbsp; In \r\n                                              all other shafts or winzes the \r\n                                              foot travelling-way or ways shall \r\n                                              be adequately railed off so as to \r\n                                              prevent any person inadvertently \r\n                                              entering the winding compartment.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In existing shafts or winzes \r\n                                              exemption from this regulation may \r\n                                              be granted by the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines for such period of time \r\n                                              and under such conditions as he \r\n                                              may specify.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 61—Special \r\n                                              Travelling-ways to be Used.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Only such travelling-way or ways \r\n                                              shall be used in ascending or \r\n                                              descending as are specially set \r\n                                              apart for the purpose:&nbsp; Provided \r\n                                              that this regulation shall not \r\n                                              apply to any person lawfully \r\n                                              engaged in making an inspection or \r\n                                              in effecting repairs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 62—Carrying of Tools or \r\n                                              Loose Materials on Ladder-ways \r\n                                              Prohibited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall carry any drill, \r\n                                              tool, or any loose material in a \r\n                                              vertical or steeply inclined shaft \r\n                                              or main travelling-way. </span>\r\n\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 63—Fencing of Entrances \r\n                                              to Shafts Winzes, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every entrance to any vertical or \r\n                                              steeply inclined shaft, winze, \r\n                                              sumps, chute, and other similar \r\n                                              workings shall be kept properly \r\n                                              protected by means of a barrier or \r\n                                              gate or adequate cover, and every \r\n                                              shaft station shall be securely \r\n                                              fenced off from the shaft, but \r\n                                              this shall not be taken to forbid \r\n                                              the temporary removal of the \r\n                                              barrier, fence or cover for the \r\n                                              purpose of repairs or other \r\n                                              operations if proper precautions \r\n                                              to prevent danger to persons are \r\n                                              taken.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 64—Protection of \r\n                                              Underground Against Falling \r\n                                              Material.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where the underground workings \r\n                                              referred to in the preceding \r\n                                              regulation, and also where steeply \r\n                                              inclined stopes lead directly into \r\n                                              a travelling road, such road, and \r\n                                              any working place situated on its \r\n                                              lower &quot;dip&quot; side, shall be \r\n                                              securely fenced off so that \r\n                                              persons working therein shall be \r\n                                              protected against danger from \r\n                                              stones or material falling from \r\n                                              such shaft, winze, sump, chute or \r\n                                              stope.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 65—Under-ground \r\n                                              Entrances to Abandoned Workings to \r\n                                              be Securely Fenced.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All underground entrances to \r\n                                              shafts or other dangerous places \r\n                                              which are temporarily or \r\n                                              permanently abandoned shall be \r\n                                              securely fenced across the whole \r\n                                              width of such entrances so that no \r\n                                              person can unintentionally enter \r\n                                              the same; and no person shall \r\n                                              cross any such fencing unless \r\n                                              authorised to do so.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 66—Laying Down of Loose \r\n                                              Articles Prohibited near Shaft \r\n                                              Entrances.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Tools, wood or any loose articles \r\n                                              shall not be laid down, or be \r\n                                              allowed to remain, in such \r\n                                              proximity to the mouth of any \r\n                                              entrance to shafts or winzes, \r\n                                              whether vertical or inclined, as \r\n                                              may result in their falling into \r\n                                              them.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 67—Winding \r\n                                              Compartments, Provisions Against \r\n                                              Crossing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              At every shaft station where it is \r\n                                              necessary for workmen to pass from \r\n                                              one side of the shaft to the \r\n                                              other, provision shall be made for \r\n                                              them to do so without entering or \r\n                                              crossing a winding compartment, \r\n                                              and such passage shall be securely \r\n                                              fenced off from moving parts of \r\n                                              machinery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 68—When Crossing \r\n                                              Permitted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall enter or cross a \r\n                                              winding compartment of a shaft or \r\n                                              of a headgear, except for the \r\n                                              purpose of entering, leaving or \r\n                                              having access to a cage, skip or \r\n                                              other convenyance or for the \r\n                                              purpose of conducting an \r\n                                              examination, affecting repairs or \r\n                                              doing other necessary work in such \r\n                                              compartment.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 69—Guides to be \r\n                                              Provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Vertical shafts exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred feet in the depth shall be \r\n                                              provided with guides for the cage, \r\n                                              skip, bucket or other means of \r\n                                              conveyance unless exempted in \r\n                                              writing by the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Such guides shall—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) in a sinking shaft allow the \r\n                                              cross-head to travel to a point \r\n                                              not more than 56 feet from the \r\n                                              bottom; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) in any other shaft extend to \r\n                                              the lowest point from which \r\n                                              winding takes place.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 70—Protection for \r\n                                              Sinkers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall be allowed to work \r\n                                              at the bottom of a shaft in course \r\n                                              of sinking unless protected by an \r\n                                              adequate cover extending over the \r\n                                              whole area of such shaft, except \r\n                                              that adequate space be left \r\n                                              therein for the ladder-way and for \r\n                                              the passage of any sinking cage, \r\n                                              skip, bucket or other means of \r\n                                              conveyance.&nbsp; Such cover shall be \r\n                                              situated at least five feet below \r\n                                              the lowest bin pass or where there \r\n                                              are no bins below the lowest \r\n                                              level; such cover shall be \r\n                                              situated not more than fifty feet \r\n                                              from the bottom of the shaft in \r\n                                              vertical and steeply inclined \r\n                                              shafts and not more than one \r\n                                              hundred feet from the bottom of \r\n                                              the shaft in other shafts: \r\n                                              Provided always that where \r\n                                              substantial covers have been \r\n                                              erected below the lowest bin pass \r\n                                              or level it shall be lawful to \r\n                                              erect below these covers temporary \r\n                                              covers within the maximum \r\n                                              distances from the bottom of the \r\n                                              shaft as stated above.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 8—WINDING, ETC.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 1—Winding Apparatus \r\n                                              and Winding Engines—Excluding \r\n                                              Elevators</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 71—Winding Apparatus to \r\n                                              be Provided with Suitable Locking \r\n                                              Device or Brake.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Winding apparatus (not being \r\n                                              mechanically operated winding \r\n                                              apparatus) in use in mines shall \r\n                                              be provided with a suitable \r\n                                              locking device or brake to hold \r\n                                              the drum stationary when a fully \r\n                                              loaded bucket or kibble or other \r\n                                              receptacle is suspended from the \r\n                                              winding rope.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 72—Winding Engines, \r\n                                              Adequate Brakes Required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) Winding engines shall be \r\n                                              provided with one or more adequate \r\n                                              brakes on every drum or drum \r\n                                              shaft, being brakes which be can \r\n                                              easily manipulated by the engine \r\n                                              driver&nbsp; when he is at the levers \r\n                                              controlling the engine; such brake \r\n                                              or brakes shall be kept in proper \r\n                                              working order.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Flanges or other appliances on \r\n                                              drums to prevent slipping.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) (a) There shall be on the drum \r\n                                              of the winding engine such flanges \r\n                                              or horns, and also if the drum is \r\n                                              conical or spiral such other \r\n                                              appliances as may be sufficient to \r\n                                              prevent the rope from slipping \r\n                                              off.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Minimum Amount of Rope Allowed on \r\n                                              Drums and Attachment of Rope to \r\n                                              Drum.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) There shall not be less than \r\n                                              three rounds of rope upon the drum \r\n                                              when the cage or skip or other \r\n                                              means of conveyance is at the \r\n                                              lowest point of the shaft from&nbsp; \r\n                                              which hoisting is going on.&nbsp; The \r\n                                              end of the rope shall, where \r\n                                              applicable, be properly fastened \r\n                                              round an arm or the shaft of the \r\n                                              drum.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) In the case of an engine where \r\n                                              no part of the rope is rigidly \r\n                                              fixed to the drum there shall be \r\n                                              no dangerous slipping of the rope \r\n                                              on the drum under any possible \r\n                                              working conditions.&nbsp; In this \r\n                                              regulation &quot;drum shaft&quot; shall \r\n                                              include sheave and sheave shaft \r\n                                              respectively.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 73—Raising or Lowering \r\n                                              Persons: Permission Required.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No winding engine or apparatus \r\n                                              shall be used:-</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) for the raising or lowering of \r\n                                              persons, or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) for the raising or lowering of \r\n                                              rocks, water, tools, or other \r\n                                              materials when persons are working \r\n                                              under or below the same; unless \r\n                                              the written permission of the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines has been \r\n                                              granted to use the winding engine \r\n                                              or apparatus and such written \r\n                                              permission may impose special \r\n                                              conditions for the safe use of the \r\n                                              winding engine or apparatus.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Maximum Number of Persons and \r\n                                              Speed to be Fixed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Before such permission is \r\n                                              granted the winding engine or \r\n                                              winding apparatus shall be tested \r\n                                              to the satisfaction of the \r\n                                              Inspector who shall fix the \r\n                                              maximum number of persons to be \r\n                                              allowed to ride in the conveyance \r\n                                              and who shall fix the maximum \r\n                                              allowable winding speed.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Number of persons allowed in \r\n                                              conveyance; notices to be posted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A notice showing clearly the \r\n                                              number of persons allowed to ride \r\n                                              in the conveyance shall be kept \r\n                                              posted up at each landing place \r\n                                              and the maximum number of persons \r\n                                              so fixed shall not be exceeded.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 74—Winding Engine to be \r\n                                              Easily Manipulated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The winding engine shall be so \r\n                                              constructed that—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) When running at various speeds \r\n                                              with light and heavy loads it can \r\n                                              be readily slowed and stopped and \r\n                                              after stopping can be immediately \r\n                                              started again in either direction \r\n                                              by the engine driver; and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) each winding drum, when \r\n                                              unclutched from the engine can be \r\n                                              maintained in a position of rest, \r\n                                              with no more slipping than one \r\n                                              foot, by means of its own brake or \r\n                                              brakes—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              when bearing its maximum working \r\n                                              load, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) when this load is increased \r\n                                              to the extent of doubling the \r\n                                              authorised load of the cage or \r\n                                              skip.&nbsp; In estimating the \r\n                                              authorised load for persons one \r\n                                              hundred and fifty pounds weight \r\n                                              shall be allotted for each person.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 75—Reliable Depth \r\n                                              Indicator Necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every engine used in raising \r\n                                              or lowering persons or material in \r\n                                              shafts or winzes exceeding one \r\n                                              hundred feet in depth shall be \r\n                                              provided with a reliable depth \r\n                                              indicator, in addition to any \r\n                                              marks on the drum, which will \r\n                                              clearly and accurately show to the \r\n                                              engine driver at his driving seat \r\n                                              at all times the position of the \r\n                                              cage, skip or other means of \r\n                                              conveyance in the shaft and also \r\n                                              at what places in the shaft \r\n                                              changes of gradient necessitate \r\n                                              reduction in speed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Speed indicator.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A reliable speed indicator \r\n                                              must be attached to the winding \r\n                                              engine if considered necessary by \r\n                                              the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 76—Automatic \r\n                                              Overwinding Prevention Device.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Some suitable automatic device \r\n                                              to prevent overwinding and \r\n                                              overspeeding of cages or other \r\n                                              conveyances shall be provided at \r\n                                              every winding shaft or winding \r\n                                              engine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Such automatic device shall be so \r\n                                              constructed as—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) to prevent the descending cage \r\n                                              or other conveyance from being \r\n                                              landed at the lowest entrance to, \r\n                                              or bottom of, the shaft or winze \r\n                                              at a speed exceeding 300 feet per \r\n                                              minute; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to control the movement of the \r\n                                              ascending cage or other conveyance \r\n                                              to prevent danger to any person \r\n                                              therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Unless such automatic device \r\n                                              is in fixed engagement with the \r\n                                              engine—</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) there shall be provided an \r\n                                              automatic indicator to show in the \r\n                                              engine room and at the shaft top \r\n                                              whether or not the device is \r\n                                              engaged; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) it shall be the duty of the \r\n                                              winding engine driver to have the \r\n                                              automatic device properly engaged \r\n                                              whenever persons are to be raised \r\n                                              or lowered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Height of headgear and clearance \r\n                                              necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The skipway on the headgear \r\n                                              shall be carried without any \r\n                                              obstruction to a height of at \r\n                                              least 25 feet above the landing \r\n                                              place of persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Spring keps or other contrivances \r\n                                              to be fitted in case of overwind.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Where winding is carried on in \r\n                                              a shaft or winze there shall be \r\n                                              fitted above the bank spring keps \r\n                                              or some other effective \r\n                                              contrivance to support any \r\n                                              conveyance as the result of an \r\n                                              overwind.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Bottom of shaft to be kept \r\n                                              reasonably free of water.&nbsp; Devise \r\n                                              to arrest speed of descending \r\n                                              conveyance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) The bottom of a shaft or winze \r\n                                              where winding is carried on shall \r\n                                              be kept reasonably free of \r\n                                              accumulation of water and some \r\n                                              efficient device, approved by the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines, shall be \r\n                                              installed to arrest the speed of \r\n                                              the descending cage, skip or other \r\n                                              conveyance particularly on the \r\n                                              occurrence on an overwind.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This device shall be in addition \r\n                                              to the automatic device mentioned \r\n                                              in sub-paragraph (1) of this \r\n                                              regulation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 2—Ropes</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 77—Winding Ropes; \r\n                                              Quality and Relation of Breaking \r\n                                              to Working Load.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every rope used for winding \r\n                                              purposes in shafts not more than \r\n                                              100 feet in depth where winding is \r\n                                              done by manual or animal power, \r\n                                              shall be made of steel of good \r\n                                              quality, free from defect, and the \r\n                                              gauge of the wires used in the \r\n                                              construction of such rope shall be \r\n                                              suited to the diameter of the \r\n                                              sheaves and drums fitted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) Winding ropes shall not be \r\n                                              used for raising or lowering \r\n                                              persons when the breaking load at \r\n                                              any point therein has become \r\n                                              reduced to less than six times the \r\n                                              maximum working load.&nbsp; When \r\n                                              calculating the maximum working \r\n                                              load the weight of the rope in the \r\n                                              shaft at the lowest working point \r\n                                              shall be included.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines shall have the power to \r\n                                              vary the requirements of this \r\n                                              regulation under such conditions \r\n                                              and on such terms as he may impose \r\n                                              in writing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 78—Spare Rope to be \r\n                                              Kept Where Persons are Hoisted.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              At every mine where persons are \r\n                                              raised or lowered at least one \r\n                                              spare rope of the type specified \r\n                                              in the preceding shall always be \r\n                                              kept in reverse ready for use.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 79—Recapping Ropes and \r\n                                              Test Piece.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) At least once in six months \r\n                                              every winding rope used for the \r\n                                              raising or lowering of persons \r\n                                              shall be recapped and a portion \r\n                                              thereof cut off the lower end not \r\n                                              less in length than half the \r\n                                              circumference of its headgear \r\n                                              sheave, with a minimum length of \r\n                                              twelve feet.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The manager shall ensure that \r\n                                              a portion of the rope so cut off, \r\n                                              twelve feet in length, has the \r\n                                              ends adequately fastened with \r\n                                              binding wire to prevent \r\n                                              disturbance of the strands or \r\n                                              other shorter lengths with metal \r\n                                              cone ends as may be specified by \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines and \r\n                                              is sent to the Mechanical \r\n                                              Laboratory of the Mines \r\n                                              Department.&nbsp; The rope shall be \r\n                                              there tested at the expense of the \r\n                                              owner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Provided that the charge made to \r\n                                              the owner for such testing shall \r\n                                              not exceed ten New Cedis.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 80—Annealing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Whenever the winding ropes are \r\n                                              recapped the connection between \r\n                                              the rope and the cage, skip, or \r\n                                              other means of conveyance, shall \r\n                                              be thoroughly examined by some \r\n                                              competent and reliable person \r\n                                              authorised thereto by the manager, \r\n                                              and shall be properly annealed or \r\n                                              subjected to other appropriate \r\n                                              heat treatment, or replaced:</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that if the connection is \r\n                                              made of steel which does not \r\n                                              require heat treatment, the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines may, on written \r\n                                              application grant exemption from \r\n                                              such requirement.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 81—Life of Rope.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No winding rope which has been in \r\n                                              use for three years shall be used \r\n                                              for the raising or lowering of \r\n                                              persons, except with the written \r\n                                              permission of the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 82—Particulars of New \r\n                                              Winding Ropes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Whenever a new winding rope is to \r\n                                              be put on for the raising or \r\n                                              lowering of persons, full \r\n                                              particulars of such rope shall be \r\n                                              supplied to the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 83—Winding Ropes and \r\n                                              Connecting Apparatus to be \r\n                                              Examined and Tested before Using \r\n                                              for Winding and Result of \r\n                                              Examination to be Recorded \r\n                                              Immediately.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) A winding rope newly put on \r\n                                              and also the connecting apparatus \r\n                                              between the rope and the cage, \r\n                                              skip or other conveyance, shall be \r\n                                              carefully examined by some \r\n                                              competent and reliable person \r\n                                              authorised thereto by the manager, \r\n                                              and shall not be used for the \r\n                                              ordinary transport of persons in \r\n                                              any shaft or winze until after it \r\n                                              has been run two complete trips up \r\n                                              and down the working portion of \r\n                                              the shaft or winze, the cage or \r\n                                              other means of conveyance attached \r\n                                              thereto bearing its authorised \r\n                                              load.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) The result of the above \r\n                                              examination shall immediately be \r\n                                              recorded in the Machinery Record \r\n                                              Book, kept as provided in \r\n                                              regulation 121 of these \r\n                                              Regulations, and such book shall \r\n                                              always be open to inspection by \r\n                                              the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 84—Winding Rope Samples \r\n                                              to be Tested if Required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              At the request of the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines an adequate \r\n                                              sample of any winding rope shall \r\n                                              be submitted by the manager for \r\n                                              such tests as the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines may require.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 85—Used Ropes \r\n                                              Prohibited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">No winding rope which has \r\n                                              previously been used in any place \r\n                                              beyond the manager''s control shall \r\n                                              be used to raise or lower persons \r\n                                              or material, except with the \r\n                                              written permission of the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 86—Spliced Rope \r\n                                              Prohibited for Transport of \r\n                                              Persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In no case shall a spliced rope be \r\n                                              used for the raising and lowering \r\n                                              of persons in a shaft or winze.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 3—Cages, Etc.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 87—Secure Connection \r\n                                              Between Rope and Conveyance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The connection between rope and \r\n                                              cage, skip, bucket, or other means \r\n                                              of conveyance shall be of such a \r\n                                              nature that no accidental \r\n                                              disconnection can take place and \r\n                                              such connection shall be made in \r\n                                              such a manner as is approved of by \r\n                                              the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 88—Securing of \r\n                                              Projecting Materials During \r\n                                              Winding.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              When tools, wood, or other \r\n                                              materials are being raised or \r\n                                              lowered in a shaft or winze, their \r\n                                              ends, if projecting above the top \r\n                                              of the age, skip, bucket, kibble \r\n                                              or other conveyance, shall be \r\n                                              securely fastened to the winding \r\n                                              rope or to the bow of the \r\n                                              conveyance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 89—Filling, Hooking, \r\n                                              Steadying, Stopping and Starting \r\n                                              of Sinking Bucket.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In a shaft or winze in the \r\n                                              course of sinking the bucket or \r\n                                              other means of conveyance shall \r\n                                              not be filled with loose rock or \r\n                                              ground above the level of the \r\n                                              brim.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Before the bucket or other \r\n                                              means of conveyance leaves the top \r\n                                              or bottom of the shaft or winze it \r\n                                              shall be steadied by or under the \r\n                                              supervision of the workman \r\n                                              in-charge who must ensure that the \r\n                                              bucket or other means of \r\n                                              conveyance is properly hooked on.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The bucket or other means of \r\n                                              conveyance shall not be lowered \r\n                                              directly to the bottom of the \r\n                                              shaft or winze if men are present \r\n                                              there, but shall be stopped at \r\n                                              least fifteen feet above the \r\n                                              bottom until the signal to further \r\n                                              lower it has been given by one of \r\n                                              the sinkers thereat.&nbsp; This \r\n                                              sub-regulation shall not apply to \r\n                                              shafts or winzes in which the \r\n                                              sinkers are not more than fifty \r\n                                              feet from the banksman.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 90—Manager to Ensure \r\n                                              Maximum Number of Persons not \r\n                                              Exceeded.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Before the raising or lowering of \r\n                                              persons is permitted, the manager \r\n                                              shall be in possession of the \r\n                                              written permission of the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines mentioned in \r\n                                              regulation 73(1).&nbsp; The manager \r\n                                              shall take such steps as may be \r\n                                              necessary including the \r\n                                              appointment of competent persons, \r\n                                              to ensure that regulation 73(3) \r\n                                              (which requires the posting of \r\n                                              notices at each landing stage to \r\n                                              show the maximum number of persons \r\n                                              allowed to ride in the conveyance) \r\n                                              is observed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 91—Covers and Safety \r\n                                              Catches Required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Cages, skips or other \r\n                                              conveyances used for conveying \r\n                                              persons in vertical or steeply \r\n                                              inclined or winzes shall—</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) have a proper roof or cover \r\n                                              and where applicable be fitted \r\n                                              with safety catches of a type \r\n                                              approved by the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) be so construed as to prevent \r\n                                              any portion of the body of any \r\n                                              person riding therein from \r\n                                              accidentally coming into contact \r\n                                              with the timbering of sides of the \r\n                                              shaft;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines may \r\n                                              exempt any existing shaft or winze \r\n                                              from the provisions of this \r\n                                              sub-regulation under such \r\n                                              conditions as he may specify.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              This sub-regulation shall not \r\n                                              apply to conveyances used in \r\n                                              sinking operations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Doors to cages shall be so \r\n                                              fixed that they cannot be \r\n                                              accidentally opened.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 92—Automatic Operation \r\n                                              of Keps, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              When keps or any other \r\n                                              contrivances are used for the \r\n                                              purpose of landing a cage or other \r\n                                              conveyance at any point in a shaft \r\n                                              or winze, other than at the bank \r\n                                              or the lowest point of travel for \r\n                                              a skip, they shall be so arranged \r\n                                              that they automatically fall clear \r\n                                              and remain clear of the hoisting \r\n                                              compartment when the cage or other \r\n                                              conveyance is lifted off.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 93—No Person Allowed to \r\n                                              Ride on Side or Bow of Skip, etc., \r\n                                              Riding in Partially Loaded Cages, \r\n                                              Skips, etc., Forbidden.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Subject to the provisions of \r\n                                              paragraphs (2) and (3) of this \r\n                                              regulation, no person shall ascend \r\n                                              or descend a shaft or winze on the \r\n                                              top of any cage or on the side, \r\n                                              bow, rim, bail or carriage of any \r\n                                              skip, kibble, truck or other means \r\n                                              of conveyance, whether loaded or \r\n                                              unloaded, or on the top of a \r\n                                              loaded or in a partially loaded \r\n                                              cage, skip, bucket, kibble, truck \r\n                                              or other means of conveyance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) This regulation shall not \r\n                                              prohibit the riding in partially \r\n                                              loaded cages, skips, buckets, \r\n                                              kibbles or other means of \r\n                                              conveyance by the persons duly \r\n                                              authorised by the manager in \r\n                                              writing for that purpose or by \r\n                                              persons engaged in sinking \r\n                                              operations or shaft examinations.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) This regulation shall not \r\n                                              prohibit the riding on the top of \r\n                                              a cage or on the bridle of a skip \r\n                                              by persons engaged in shaft \r\n                                              repairs or shaft inspections, but \r\n                                              in case of vertical shafts a cover \r\n                                              shall be provided to protect \r\n                                              persons engaged in shaft repairs \r\n                                              or shaft inspections and such \r\n                                              persons shall be provided with and \r\n                                              shall wear a safety belt or \r\n                                              harness effectively secured to \r\n                                              prevent them falling down the \r\n                                              shaft.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 94—Acts Prohibited \r\n                                              While Cage is in Motion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No person travelling in a cage \r\n                                              or other conveyance shall change \r\n                                              his place therein while the \r\n                                              conveyance is in motion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall get on or off, \r\n                                              or attempt to get on or off, a \r\n                                              cage or any other conveyance while \r\n                                              such conveyance is in motion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person shall ride on the \r\n                                              winding rope.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No person shall smoke while \r\n                                              travelling in a cage or any other \r\n                                              conveyance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 4—Repairs, Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 95—Winding During \r\n                                              Repairs, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No winding shall be permitted \r\n                                              without the permission in writing \r\n                                              of the Chief Inspector of Mines in \r\n                                              a winding compartment of a shaft \r\n                                              or headgear whilst persons are \r\n                                              engaged in effecting repairs, \r\n                                              conducting an examination or doing \r\n                                              other necessary work in the shaft, \r\n                                              except such winding as may be \r\n                                              necessary for the purpose of such \r\n                                              repairs, examination or other \r\n                                              work.&nbsp; This regulation shall not \r\n                                              prohibit persons from working who \r\n                                              are adequately protected from the \r\n                                              conveyances and other winding \r\n                                              equipment used in such winding \r\n                                              operations as well as from falling \r\n                                              stones and falling material.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 96—Precautions in the \r\n                                              Case of Shaft Repairs.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever repairs, examination \r\n                                              or work in connection with the \r\n                                              maintenance or installation of \r\n                                              equipment in a winding compartment \r\n                                              of a shaft or headgear are to be \r\n                                              carried out, the person in \r\n                                              immediate charge of such repairs, \r\n                                              examinations or other work shall—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) give notice to the winding \r\n                                              engine drive that such repairs, \r\n                                              examination or other work are to \r\n                                              be undertaken;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) take with him the winding \r\n                                              engine room the special brass \r\n                                              token; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) ensure that all signals given \r\n                                              to the winding engine driver shall \r\n                                              be preceded by a special signal &quot;A \r\n                                              long bell&quot;, &quot;shaft repairs&quot;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) The person in immediate charge \r\n                                              of such repairs, examination or \r\n                                              other work shall be the only \r\n                                              person authorised to give any \r\n                                              signal, or to instruct any other \r\n                                              person to give any signal, to the \r\n                                              winding engine driver while such \r\n                                              repairs, examination or other work \r\n                                              are being undertaken.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No other person is authorised \r\n                                              to give any signal or instruct any \r\n                                              person to give any signal while \r\n                                              shaft repairs are in progress or \r\n                                              when the brass token is removed \r\n                                              from the winding engine room.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 97—Completion of Shaft \r\n                                              Repairs.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              On completion of the repairs, \r\n                                              examination or other work in a \r\n                                              winding compartment of a shaft or \r\n                                              headgear the person in immediate \r\n                                              charge shall—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) return the brass taken to the \r\n                                              winding engine room and notify the \r\n                                              winding engine driver that such \r\n                                              has been completed;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) record such operations in the \r\n                                              shaft log book.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 98—Brass Token to be \r\n                                              Kept in Conspicuous Place in \r\n                                              Winding Engine Room.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except when repairs, examination \r\n                                              or other work in a winding \r\n                                              compartment of a shaft or headgear \r\n                                              are being undertaken the special \r\n                                              brass token shall be kept in a \r\n                                              conspicuous place in the winding \r\n                                              engine room and in full view of \r\n                                              the winding engine driver when at \r\n                                              the levers controlling the engine.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 99—Signals when Brass \r\n                                              token removed to Preceded by the \r\n                                              Signal &quot;One Long Bell&quot;.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever the brass token is \r\n                                              absent from the winding engine \r\n                                              room the winding engine driver \r\n                                              shall not set the engine in motion \r\n                                              in response to any signal unless \r\n                                              such signal has been immediately \r\n                                              preceded by the special signal \r\n                                              &quot;one long bell&quot;.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No other special signal shall \r\n                                              be employed in lieu of the special \r\n                                              signal &quot;one long bell&quot; unless \r\n                                              authorised in writing by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines, and a copy of \r\n                                              such authorisation shall be posted \r\n                                              conspicuously in full view of the \r\n                                              winding engine driver, at the \r\n                                              shaft collar, and at every \r\n                                              station.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 100—Precautions to be \r\n                                              taken against Fire where Flame \r\n                                              Cutting or Welding Apparatus is \r\n                                              used in Shaft Repairs.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where oxy-acetylene or other \r\n                                              flame cutting or welding apparatus \r\n                                              is being used in effecting repairs \r\n                                              in a shaft or the headgear \r\n                                              thereof, the person in immediate \r\n                                              charge of such repairs shall take \r\n                                              all precautions against burning \r\n                                              material falling down the shaft \r\n                                              and shall by the use of water or \r\n                                              other coolant effectively render \r\n                                              the place where the cutting or \r\n                                              welding operations are being \r\n                                              carried on safe from the hazard of \r\n                                              fire.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Following the completion of such \r\n                                              cutting or welding operations, the \r\n                                              person in immediate charge of the \r\n                                              operations shall—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) immediately thoroughly examine \r\n                                              the site of such cutting or \r\n                                              welding operations and the whole \r\n                                              length of the shaft below such \r\n                                              site with particular regard to the \r\n                                              hazard of fire, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) make further examination as \r\n                                              stated in sub-paragraph (a) of \r\n                                              this regulation not less than one \r\n                                              hour or more than two hours after \r\n                                              completion of such cutting or \r\n                                              welding operations.&nbsp; On this \r\n                                              second examination he shall be \r\n                                              accompanied by a senior mine \r\n                                              official of not lower rank than \r\n                                              mine captain, and the results of \r\n                                              such examination shall be logged \r\n                                              and signed by both.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) After any stoppage of winding \r\n                                              for repairs or for any other \r\n                                              purpose exceeding two hours \r\n                                              duration, the winding engine shall \r\n                                              not be used for raising or \r\n                                              lowering persons until the cage, \r\n                                              skip or other means of conveyance \r\n                                              has been run at least one complete \r\n                                              trip up and down the working \r\n                                              portion of the shaft.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 5—Signals</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 101—Shaft Signals \r\n                                              Required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Every winding shaft, if exceeding \r\n                                              fifty feet in depth and not \r\n                                              exempted in writing by the \r\n                                              Inspector, shall be provided with \r\n                                              some efficient means of \r\n                                              intercharging distinct and \r\n                                              definite signals between the \r\n                                              winding engine, the top of the \r\n                                              shaft, and the lowest point from \r\n                                              which winding is carried on, and \r\n                                              the various intermediate stations \r\n                                              for the time being in use, but \r\n                                              this regulation shall not apply to \r\n                                              signalling apparatus used during \r\n                                              sinking operations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 102—Each Winding Engine \r\n                                              to be Provided with a Separate \r\n                                              Signalling System.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where more than one winding engine \r\n                                              is in use at a shaft, a separate \r\n                                              signalling system constructed as \r\n                                              stated in regulation 101 must be \r\n                                              provided for each winding engine \r\n                                              in use.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 103—Unauthorised \r\n                                              Persons not to Signal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No unauthorised person shall give \r\n                                              any signal other than an accident \r\n                                              signal, or in any manner \r\n                                              whatsoever interfere with the \r\n                                              signalling arrangements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 104—Code of Shaft \r\n                                              Signal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The following code of shaft \r\n                                              signals shall be used and strictly \r\n                                              observed:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              To raise when engine is at rest&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 Bell</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              To stop when engine is in \r\n                                              motion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 Bell</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              To lower&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;. .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 Bells</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Men about to ascend, descend or \r\n                                              alight . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              4 Bells</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              In reply—Men may enter or leave \r\n                                              cage or other</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              conveyance. .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;. \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4 Bells</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Changing stations&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3 Bells</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Stop conveyance until 5-5 Bells \r\n                                              have been repeated . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5-5 \r\n                                              Bells</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Accident&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;. .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5-5-5 Bells</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Shaft Repairs. .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . \r\n                                              .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 long Bell</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; STATION \r\n                                              SIGNALS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Station&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              Bells&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pause&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bells</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n                                              5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              In no case shall any person enter \r\n                                              or leave a cage or other \r\n                                              conveyance until the signal &quot;4&quot; \r\n                                              has been received from the engine \r\n                                              driver.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Special signals in addition to the \r\n                                              above may be used at any mine, \r\n                                              provided they have been approved \r\n                                              in writing by the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 105—Signals During \r\n                                              Blasting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The person in charge of blasting \r\n                                              operations in a shaft in course of \r\n                                              sinking shall notify the engine \r\n                                              driver by a special signal when \r\n                                              blasting is about to take place.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 106—Signal Wires.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Signal wires shall be so placed \r\n                                              that they cannot be accidentally \r\n                                              put into operation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 107—Legible Notice of \r\n                                              Signals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The before-mentioned code of \r\n                                              signals, as well as any special \r\n                                              signals that may be in use on a \r\n                                              mine, shall be painted on a board \r\n                                              or enamelled plate in the form of \r\n                                              a distinctly legible notice in \r\n                                              letters and figures not less than \r\n                                              one inch in height and shall be \r\n                                              posted up in the engine room, at \r\n                                              the top of the shaft and all shaft \r\n                                              stations for the time being in \r\n                                              use.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 108—Authorisation of \r\n                                              Persons Appointed to Give Signals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The manager or underground \r\n                                              manager shall appoint a person or \r\n                                              persons who shall be authorised to \r\n                                              give signals at winding shafts.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall be authorised \r\n                                              to give signals at a winding shaft \r\n                                              where persons are raised or \r\n                                              lowered unless he has satisfied \r\n                                              the manager or underground \r\n                                              manager, by examination that he \r\n                                              has a thorough knowledge of—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the code of signals prescribed \r\n                                              under regulation 104;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) the winding operations carried \r\n                                              out at such shaft; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the regulations to be observed \r\n                                              in connection with such winding \r\n                                              operations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any appointment made under this \r\n                                              regulation shall be in writing.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 109—Duties of Persons \r\n                                              Authorised to Give Signals.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              At any winding shaft where persons \r\n                                              are raised or lowered it shall be \r\n                                              the duty of the person appointed \r\n                                              under regulation 108 to ensure \r\n                                              that—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) the maximum number of persons \r\n                                              allowed to travel in the \r\n                                              conveyance is not exceeded;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) the doors or gates of the \r\n                                              conveyance are properly closed \r\n                                              when persons have entered therein;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) where applicable, the cover \r\n                                              over the conveyance is in proper \r\n                                              position before persons are \r\n                                              allowed to enter the conveyance;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) the doors gates or barriers to \r\n                                              the winding compartment are \r\n                                              properly closed before the \r\n                                              conveyance leaves the shaft \r\n                                              station; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (e) the provisions of regulations \r\n                                              93 and 100 (2) (which prohibits \r\n                                              the riding on the side or bow of \r\n                                              any kip, etc., and the use of the \r\n                                              winding engine until the cage or \r\n                                              skip has been run one complete \r\n                                              trip, etc.) are properly observed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Sub-Division 6—Winding Engine \r\n                                              Drivers, Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 110—Winch Drivers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall be in charge of a \r\n                                              power winch or hoist used solely \r\n                                              for the raising or lowering of \r\n                                              rock or materials in a shaft or \r\n                                              winze unless he has satisfied the \r\n                                              Chief Engineer or his \r\n                                              representative that he is suitable \r\n                                              to be a winch driver.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 111—Winding Engine \r\n                                              Drivers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall be in charge \r\n                                              of a winding engine used for the \r\n                                              raising and lowering of persons in \r\n                                              a shaft or winze unless he is the \r\n                                              holder of a winding engine \r\n                                              driver''s certificate of competency \r\n                                              granted by the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) No certificate shall be \r\n                                              granted by the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines unless the applicant has \r\n                                              satisfied a Board consisting of \r\n                                              the Inspector, the Chief Engineer \r\n                                              or his representative and a Senior \r\n                                              Underground Officer that—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 112—Winding Engine \r\n                                              Drivers to Undergo Regular Medical \r\n                                              Examination.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every winding engine driver shall \r\n                                              be medically examined at least \r\n                                              once in every three months and if \r\n                                              found to be unfit to perform his \r\n                                              duties as a winding engine driver \r\n                                              he shall not be allowed to take \r\n                                              charge of a winding engine and his \r\n                                              certificate shall be forwarded to \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines:</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that within fourteen days \r\n                                              of such finding he may appeal to \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines for \r\n                                              medical examination by medical \r\n                                              board.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 113—Certificate may be \r\n                                              Withdrawn in Certain Cases.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Every winding engine driver who, \r\n                                              in the opinion of the Inspector, \r\n                                              is guilty of gross inattention to, \r\n                                              or negligence in the execution of \r\n                                              his duties as a winding engine \r\n                                              driver or of any misconduct likely \r\n                                              to be detrimental to the efficient \r\n                                              discharge of his duties, may have \r\n                                              his certificate endorsed, \r\n                                              suspended or withdrawn by the \r\n                                              Inspector who shall forthwith \r\n                                              report such endorsement, \r\n                                              suspension or withdrawal to the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that an appeal shall lie \r\n                                              from the decision of the Inspector \r\n                                              to the Chief Inspector of Mines, \r\n                                              and notice of appeal shall be \r\n                                              given within 14 days of such \r\n                                              endorsement, suspension or \r\n                                              withdrawal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 114—All Tests to be \r\n                                              Recorded in Winding Engine \r\n                                              Driver''s Certificate.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Whenever a winding engine driver \r\n                                              is to be placed in charge of a \r\n                                              winding engine of which he has not \r\n                                              previously been in charge, it \r\n                                              shall be the responsibility of the \r\n                                              mechanical engineer to examine and \r\n                                              test him, to ascertain whether he \r\n                                              is fully competent to take charge \r\n                                              of such winding engine. The date \r\n                                              of any such test shall be recorded \r\n                                              in his certificate.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 115—Distinct Signals to \r\n                                              be Received Before Starting \r\n                                              Engine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No driver shall set his winding \r\n                                              engine in motion before he has \r\n                                              received a distinct signal to do \r\n                                              so and has repeated such signal in \r\n                                              reply, except in accordance with \r\n                                              instructions given to him by the \r\n                                              mine manager or the Chief \r\n                                              engineer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 116—Testing of Brakes \r\n                                              by Driver.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No driver shall declutch a drum of \r\n                                              his winding engine until he has \r\n                                              assured himself immediately \r\n                                              beforehand by testing the brake of \r\n                                              the drum against the full power of \r\n                                              the engine that the brake is in a \r\n                                              proper condition to hold the load \r\n                                              suspended from the said drum.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 117—Speed of Winding of \r\n                                              Persons and Precautions Against \r\n                                              Shocks.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              When raising or lowering persons \r\n                                              the winding engine driver shall—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) not allow the winding speed to \r\n                                              exceed that fixed by the \r\n                                              Inspector;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) avoid shocks in starting, \r\n                                              stopping and running the engine;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) correctly apply every device \r\n                                              and means at his disposal to \r\n                                              prevent the conveyance from \r\n                                              overrunning the highest or lowest \r\n                                              landing place for persons, or any \r\n                                              intermediate landing place to \r\n                                              which the conveyance is signalled.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 118—Winding Engine \r\n                                              Driver to Observe Certain \r\n                                              Provisions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every winding engine driver shall, \r\n                                              when applicable, carefully observe \r\n                                              the provisions of regulations 76 \r\n                                              (2) (b), (winding engine driver to \r\n                                              have automatic device properly \r\n                                              engaged), 89 (3) (bucket to be \r\n                                              stopped before reaching bottom), \r\n                                              99 (1) (signals when brass token \r\n                                              removed to be preceeded by the \r\n                                              signal &quot;1 long bell&quot;) and 104 \r\n                                              (Code of shaft signals.)</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 7—Examination of \r\n                                              Winding Equipment </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 119—Examination of \r\n                                              Winding Equipment.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The following provisions shall \r\n                                              apply to the use of winding \r\n                                              plants:—</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The manager shall appoint in \r\n                                              writing some person or persons \r\n                                              whose duty it shall be to examine \r\n                                              carefully—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) at least once in each day the \r\n                                              winding ropes, the balance or tail \r\n                                              ropes, the connections of the \r\n                                              ropes to the conveyances and \r\n                                              drums, the conveyances and their \r\n                                              safety catches, the pulley wheels \r\n                                              and sheaves, the brakes, the depth \r\n                                              indicator, the safety devices, and \r\n                                              all external parts of the winding \r\n                                              equipment upon the proper working \r\n                                              of which the safety of persons \r\n                                              depends;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) at least once in each week the \r\n                                              signalling arrangements and the \r\n                                              safety devices used in connection \r\n                                              therewith; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) at least once in each week the \r\n                                              guides or rails and the winding \r\n                                              compartment generally including \r\n                                              the doors gates or barriers and \r\n                                              ancillary equipment at stations \r\n                                              and landing platforms.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The mechanical engineer, or a \r\n                                              competent person selected by the \r\n                                              mechanical engineer and approved \r\n                                              by the manager in writing, shall \r\n                                              examine carefully —</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) at least once in each week the \r\n                                              external parts of the winding \r\n                                              engine, the safety devices and the \r\n                                              aerial gear;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) at least once a fortnight the \r\n                                              connections referred to in \r\n                                              sub-regulation (1) (a) of this \r\n                                              regulation and the structure of \r\n                                              the winding rope and the balance \r\n                                              or tail ropes, with a view to \r\n                                              ascertaining the amount of \r\n                                              deterioration thereof; and for the \r\n                                              purpose of this examination the \r\n                                              rope must be thoroughly cleaned at \r\n                                              places to be selected by the said \r\n                                              engineer who shall note any \r\n                                              reduction in the diameter or \r\n                                              circumference of, and the \r\n                                              proportion of wear in, the rope; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (c) at least once in each year the \r\n                                              winding engine as to the working \r\n                                              condition of the internal \r\n                                              mechanical parts and as far as \r\n                                              reasonably practicable, of the \r\n                                              internal electrical parts.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The mechanical engineer, shall \r\n                                              ensure that—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) effective steps are taken to \r\n                                              prevent water, grease, or oil from \r\n                                              being deposited upon the brake \r\n                                              paths of any winding engine;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) daily retardation tests are \r\n                                              carried out on the mechanical \r\n                                              brakes, each drum being tested \r\n                                              independently; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) daily retardation tests are \r\n                                              carried out on dynamic or other \r\n                                              electrical braking systems, where \r\n                                              applicable.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) Telephone communication shall \r\n                                              be available between all principal \r\n                                              landing places in a winding shaft \r\n                                              and the winding engine driver \r\n                                              unless exempted in writing by the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 120—Duty when Defect is \r\n                                              Discovered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              If on any examination or test as \r\n                                              is required under regulation 119 \r\n                                              there is discovered any weakness \r\n                                              or defect by which the safety of \r\n                                              persons may be endangered, such \r\n                                              weakness or defect shall \r\n                                              immediately be reported to the \r\n                                              manager in writing.&nbsp; Until such \r\n                                              weakness or defect is remedied the \r\n                                              winding plant shall not be used \r\n                                              except in so far as may be \r\n                                              necessary in connection with the \r\n                                              remedying of such weakness or \r\n                                              defect.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 121—Machinery Record \r\n                                              Book and Shaft Log Book.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              true report of the result of every \r\n                                              examination or test as required \r\n                                              under regulation 119 shall be \r\n                                              recorded and signed in ink without \r\n                                              delay in the Machinery Record Book \r\n                                              or the Shaft Log Book as the case \r\n                                              may be.&nbsp; Such books must be kept \r\n                                              at the mine specially for this \r\n                                              purpose and shall at all times be \r\n                                              open for inspection by the \r\n                                              Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              PART 9—UNDERGROUND HAULAGE</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 122—Refuge Holes to be \r\n                                              Provided if Necessary.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) In any haulage way where \r\n                                              vehicles are being moved by a \r\n                                              locomotive, or by mechanically or \r\n                                              gravity operated haulage \r\n                                              apparatus, a clearance of at least \r\n                                              two feet shall be maintained \r\n                                              between one side of the haulage \r\n                                              way and the vehicles unless \r\n                                              suitable refuge holes are provided \r\n                                              at intervals of not more than 50 \r\n                                              feet.&nbsp; This clearance and such \r\n                                              refuge holes shall be free from \r\n                                              loose material and broken rock.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) On every inclined track \r\n                                              adequate safety devices shall be \r\n                                              provided to forestall danger from \r\n                                              runaway trucks.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 123—Traction Operated \r\n                                              by Machinery.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) Where traction is operated by \r\n                                              machinery other than locomotive, a \r\n                                              signalling apparatus shall be \r\n                                              provided by which distinct signals \r\n                                              can be given to the engine driver \r\n                                              from anywhere along the haulage \r\n                                              way.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where traction is operated by \r\n                                              gravity and the inclined plane \r\n                                              exceeds one hundred and fifty feet \r\n                                              in length, some efficient means of \r\n                                              communicating distinct signals \r\n                                              from anywhere on the inclined \r\n                                              plane and the stopping places \r\n                                              connected therewith shall be \r\n                                              provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 124—Locomotive \r\n                                              Provisions.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every locomotive used either \r\n                                              above or below ground shall be \r\n                                              provided with—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a braking system which can, \r\n                                              whether or not any other device \r\n                                              for applying the brakes is fitted, \r\n                                              be applied by direct mechanical \r\n                                              action;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) an adequate warning signal, \r\n                                              which shall be sounded when \r\n                                              starting and at such other times \r\n                                              as warning of danger may be \r\n                                              required.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) In the case of a locomotive \r\n                                              used below ground such locomotive \r\n                                              shall in addition be provided \r\n                                              with—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a headlight capable of showing \r\n                                              any obstruction in the haulage way \r\n                                              ahead within 200 feet of the \r\n                                              locomotive;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) a portable lamp for use in \r\n                                              emergency; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a suitable portable fire \r\n                                              extinguisher.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 125—Lights on Trains, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every truck or leading unit of a \r\n                                              train of trucks below ground shall \r\n                                              have an adequate light affixed to \r\n                                              the front of it when it is in \r\n                                              motion.&nbsp; A train of trucks shall, \r\n                                              in addition, have an adequate \r\n                                              light affixed to the rear of the \r\n                                              last unit.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 126—Riding on Haulage \r\n                                              Gear.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Except with the permission of the \r\n                                              manager no person shall ride or be \r\n                                              permitted to ride on or in any \r\n                                              locomotive or trucks unless he is—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) a member of the train crew; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) a person engaged in shunting \r\n                                              operations for which the \r\n                                              locomotive is being used at the \r\n                                              time; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) a person engaged in \r\n                                              maintaining or testing the \r\n                                              locomotive;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided this shall not apply to \r\n                                              persons being transported on \r\n                                              passenger trucks specially \r\n                                              provided for that purpose.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 127—Ascending or \r\n                                              Descending While in Motion \r\n                                              Prohibited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall attempt to get on \r\n                                              or off or attempt to couple or \r\n                                              uncouple a locomotive or truck \r\n                                              which is in motion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 128—Material Exceeding \r\n                                              Length of Truck.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No truck containing timber or \r\n                                              other material exceeding in length \r\n                                              the length of the truck shall be \r\n                                              coupled next to the locomotive or \r\n                                              to any truck in which any person \r\n                                              is being conveyed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Trucks containing such timber \r\n                                              or other material when being \r\n                                              transported by a locomotive shall \r\n                                              not be pushed but pulled.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 129—Locomotive not to \r\n                                              be Left Unattended.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The driver of a locomotive shall \r\n                                              not leave it unattended away from \r\n                                              the place where it is housed when \r\n                                              not in use, unless he has ensured \r\n                                              that it cannot be set in motion by \r\n                                              any unauthorised person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 130—Arrangement of \r\n                                              Control Levers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Control levers of storage battery \r\n                                              and trolley locomotives shall be \r\n                                              so arranged that the lever cannot \r\n                                              accidentally be removed when power \r\n                                              is on.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 131—Defective and \r\n                                              Non-maintained Locomotives not to \r\n                                              be Used.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No locomotive shall be used if—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) it has any defect liable to \r\n                                              affect its safe running; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) it is not maintained in proper \r\n                                              working order or replenished with \r\n                                              all necessary oil and consumable \r\n                                              stores.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 132—Diesel Locomotive \r\n                                              Requirements.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No diesel locomotive shall be \r\n                                              used below ground unless—</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) air entering the engine is \r\n                                              cleaned,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) exhaust gases are cooled and \r\n                                              diluted,</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (c) the emission of flames or \r\n                                              sparks is prevented, and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) its undiluted exhaust gas \r\n                                              contains not more than 0.1 percent \r\n                                              CO (carbon monoxide).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any protective device fitted \r\n                                              to an exhaust opening of a diesel \r\n                                              engine shall whenever necessary, \r\n                                              and in any event not less often \r\n                                              that once in every period of 24 \r\n                                              hours during which the engine has \r\n                                              been run, be thoroughly cleaned or \r\n                                              replaced by a like device in clean \r\n                                              condition.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No diesel locomotive shall be \r\n                                              used in any place where there is \r\n                                              not for the time being a \r\n                                              sufficient current of air render \r\n                                              the gas from its exhaust harmless.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 133—Appointed Filling \r\n                                              and Charging Stations Only to be \r\n                                              Used.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No diesel locomotive shall be \r\n                                              replenished with fuel oil below \r\n                                              ground except at a filling station \r\n                                              appointed by the manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No battery of a storage \r\n                                              battery locomotive shall be \r\n                                              charged or changed below ground \r\n                                              except at a charging station \r\n                                              appointed by the manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every filling station and \r\n                                              every charging station shall be—</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) ventilated by a through \r\n                                              current of air sufficient to \r\n                                              render gases harmless; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) kept provided with equipment \r\n                                              for extinguishing fire.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) No person shall smoke or use \r\n                                              any light or lamp other than an \r\n                                              electric lamp adequately protected \r\n                                              in any filling or charging station \r\n                                              or in the vicinity of any filling \r\n                                              or charging station.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) No fuel oil shall be stored \r\n                                              below ground other than in a \r\n                                              locked enclosure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 10—UNDERGROUND-GENERAL</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 134—Securing of Unsafe \r\n                                              Workings and Dangerous Ground and \r\n                                              Reserve Timber Supplies.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Where the natural strata are \r\n                                              not safe, every working or pumping \r\n                                              shaft, and every travelling road, \r\n                                              airway or working place shall be \r\n                                              securely timbered, filled, walled \r\n                                              up or otherwise made secure, and \r\n                                              kept in safe condition as long as \r\n                                              it is in actual use, and no person \r\n                                              unless appointed for the purpose \r\n                                              of exploring or repairing, shall \r\n                                              travel or work in any such shaft \r\n                                              or underground working until it is \r\n                                              made secure.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) In addition to such securing \r\n                                              as above, a sufficient reserve of \r\n                                              suitable timber shall be provided \r\n                                              conveniently for supporting \r\n                                              excavations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Ground known to be dangerous \r\n                                              must not be left unattended until \r\n                                              such time as it may be properly \r\n                                              secured, made safe or fenced off.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 135—Reporting Danger \r\n                                              and Books for Complaint.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Should any person have reason \r\n                                              to believe that any part of the \r\n                                              mine in which he is working or \r\n                                              through which he has to travel to \r\n                                              get to his work, is in a dangerous \r\n                                              condition, he shall at once inform \r\n                                              the mine captain or shift boss who \r\n                                              shall immediately take steps to \r\n                                              remove the danger.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) A book shall be kept at or \r\n                                              near each shaft in which any \r\n                                              person may enter up any complaint \r\n                                              with regard to the safe working of \r\n                                              the mine which they should \r\n                                              record.&nbsp; Such book shall be \r\n                                              available at any time for \r\n                                              inspection by the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 136—Connection with Old \r\n                                              or Abandoned Workings Pilot Holes \r\n                                              and Disused Workings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">  (1) No working shall be started to \r\n                                              make an underground connection \r\n                                              with known old or abandoned \r\n                                              workings until written permission \r\n                                              shall have been given by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines, under such \r\n                                              conditions as he may prescribe in \r\n                                              writing:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that for the purpose of \r\n                                              this regulation the term old or \r\n                                              abandoned workings shall not be \r\n                                              taken to include native workings \r\n                                              which do not extend below water \r\n                                              level.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a place contains or is \r\n                                              likely to contain a dangerous \r\n                                              accumulation of water or noxious \r\n                                              gases, any working approaching \r\n                                              that place shall have bore holes \r\n                                              not less than six feet in length \r\n                                              kept in advance of the \r\n                                              drilling-holes, and all \r\n                                              precautions shall be taken to \r\n                                              prevent an unpremeditated breaking \r\n                                              through to the working containing \r\n                                              or likely to contain a dangerous \r\n                                              accumulation of water or noxious \r\n                                              gases.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In old sand-filled or other \r\n                                              disused workings which were \r\n                                              originally driven in the mineral \r\n                                              channel, the re-opening of such \r\n                                              workings shall not be undertaken \r\n                                              without the permission previously \r\n                                              obtained in writing, of the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 137—Safety Pillars \r\n                                              Between Adjoining Properties and \r\n                                              Their Removal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) On the inside of the boundary \r\n                                              lines of every mine safety pillars \r\n                                              shall be left standing not less \r\n                                              than thirty feet in width measured \r\n                                              at right angles from the boundary \r\n                                              line.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) On the joint application of \r\n                                              the owners of adjoining mines, the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines may give \r\n                                              permission to either party to \r\n                                              weaken, cut through or work their \r\n                                              respective pillars between such \r\n                                              mines under such conditions as he \r\n                                              may prescribe in writing.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In the absence of such joint \r\n                                              application the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines shall have power to give \r\n                                              written permission for the partial \r\n                                              working, weakening or cutting \r\n                                              through of such pillars under such \r\n                                              conditions as he may prescribe in \r\n                                              writing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 138—Pollution of \r\n                                              Underground Workings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No person shall pollute the \r\n                                              underground workings with faeces \r\n                                              or urine, nor wantonly misuse or \r\n                                              foul the sanitary conveniences \r\n                                              underground.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 139—Tailings Used for \r\n                                              Filling.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Tailings used for filling worked \r\n                                              out areas underground, and the \r\n                                              liquids draining therefrom, shall \r\n                                              not contain a higher cyanide \r\n                                              content than 0.005 percent \r\n                                              expressed as cyanide of potassium.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 140—Stagnant Water to \r\n                                              be Drained Off.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Stagnant water shall not be \r\n                                              allowed to remain on the floors of \r\n                                              levels which are in use, but shall \r\n                                              be drained off.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 141—Refuse not to \r\n                                              Accumulate Underground. Fire \r\n                                              Precautions to be Taken.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No refuse shall be allowed to \r\n                                              accumulate underground, but shall \r\n                                              be removed from the workings at \r\n                                              least once a week and be&nbsp; brought \r\n                                              to the surface and there disposed \r\n                                              of in a suitable manner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Waste timber in underground \r\n                                              workings shall not be permitted to \r\n                                              decay but shall be removed as soon \r\n                                              as practicable to the surface.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person shall smoke or be \r\n                                              permitted to smoke underground.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) Suitable fire extinguishers \r\n                                              shall be provided at all \r\n                                              electrical installations such as \r\n                                              sub-stations, switch houses, \r\n                                              battery charging stations, \r\n                                              electric winder houses and all \r\n                                              other strategic points on main \r\n                                              levels where gasoline, kerosine, \r\n                                              diesel fuel oil is used or stored.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (5) A suitable firewarning system, \r\n                                              e.g., the introduction of \r\n                                              eucalyptus oil or stench gas into \r\n                                              the ventilation system or the main \r\n                                              compressed air supply shall be \r\n                                              adopted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) All intake and return airways \r\n                                              shall be clearly marked and \r\n                                              sign-posted underground.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) A general fire drill shall be \r\n                                              rigidly carried out at least once \r\n                                              in every six months and all senior \r\n                                              mine officials, foremen and \r\n                                              headmen shall be trained in a \r\n                                              procedure to follow in case of \r\n                                              fire.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 11—VENTILATION AND DUST \r\n                                              PREVENTION</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 142—Quality of Air.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              The ventilation in every mine \r\n                                              shall be such that the air in all \r\n                                              workings that are in use or are to \r\n                                              be used by workmen or others shall \r\n                                              be free from dangerous amounts of \r\n                                              noxious impurities and shall \r\n                                              contain sufficient oxygen to \r\n                                              obviate danger to the health of \r\n                                              any one employed in any such mine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In any workings where such \r\n                                              conditions cannot be obtained by \r\n                                              natural ventilation, means for \r\n                                              mechanical ventilation shall be \r\n                                              provided and kept in operation \r\n                                              until such workings have been \r\n                                              abandoned or until satisfactory \r\n                                              natural ventilation shall have \r\n                                              been brought about therein.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 143—Ventilating Doors \r\n                                              to be Self-closing.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) All doors assisting or in any \r\n                                              way affecting ventilation shall be \r\n                                              so adjusted that they are \r\n                                              self-closing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who opens any such \r\n                                              door shall ensure that it is \r\n                                              closed forthwith.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 144—Ventilation of \r\n                                              Winzes and Raises.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No air pipe in a winze or raise \r\n                                              shall be fitted with any cock or \r\n                                              valve at any point within the \r\n                                              winze or raise unless a separate \r\n                                              ventilating pipe without cock or \r\n                                              valve attachment in the winze or \r\n                                              raise is installed for conveying \r\n                                              compressed air to the working \r\n                                              place.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 145—Disused Workings to \r\n                                              be Examined before being Again \r\n                                              Used.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Underground workings, especially \r\n                                              shafts, sumps, and winzes, which \r\n                                              have not been in use for sometime \r\n                                              shall be tested with a lighted \r\n                                              candle or flame safety lamp before \r\n                                              being again used, in order to \r\n                                              ascertain whether foul air or \r\n                                              other dangerous gases have \r\n                                              accumulated there and only such \r\n                                              workmen as may be necessary to \r\n                                              make such examination, shall be \r\n                                              allowed to proceed to such places \r\n                                              until such places are in a fit \r\n                                              state to work or travel in.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 146—Vitiated Air to be \r\n                                              Replaced.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) After blasting has occurred in \r\n                                              any place in a mine in which there \r\n                                              is no through ventilating current \r\n                                              no person shall enter, or cause or \r\n                                              permit any person to enter such \r\n                                              place until a quantity of fresh \r\n                                              air, not less than the volume of \r\n                                              such place beyond the nearest \r\n                                              point at which there is through \r\n                                              ventilation, or not less than a \r\n                                              smaller quantity sanctioned by the \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines in writing for \r\n                                              the particular working place, has \r\n                                              been supplied to replace the air \r\n                                              vitiated by dust or fumes caused \r\n                                              by blasting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No working place shall be \r\n                                              extended for a distance of 600 \r\n                                              feet from the last through \r\n                                              ventilation connection except by \r\n                                              permission in writing of the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person shall stope or be \r\n                                              caused or permitted to stope above \r\n                                              any drive or level where there is \r\n                                              no through connection from the \r\n                                              stope to the drive or level above \r\n                                              except by permission in writing of \r\n                                              the Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 147—Persons not to Work \r\n                                              in Foul Air.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall work or remain \r\n                                              in a place in a mine if the air \r\n                                              contains dust, smoke, fumes or \r\n                                              gases which are evident to the \r\n                                              senses.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) Before blasting operations the \r\n                                              manager or person appointed by him \r\n                                              in writing shall see that every \r\n                                              person not engaged in such \r\n                                              operations shall be hoisted to the \r\n                                              surface or removed to a place free \r\n                                              from fumes or gases.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) During the shift no person \r\n                                              shall blast without the permission \r\n                                              of the manager or of a person \r\n                                              appointed by him in writing.&nbsp; No \r\n                                              such permission shall be given \r\n                                              unless reasonable precautions have \r\n                                              been taken to prevent any person \r\n                                              being exposed to smoke or fumes \r\n                                              from such blasting.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 148—Water for Dust \r\n                                              Prevention.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              An adequate supply of water which \r\n                                              is clear and odourless shall be \r\n                                              provided at a pressure of not less \r\n                                              than thirty pounds per square inch \r\n                                              at every point where it is \r\n                                              required for dust prevention.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 149—Rock Drills.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) In any underground working no \r\n                                              person shall use or cause or \r\n                                              permit to be used any percussion \r\n                                              rock drill unless—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) the drill steel used in the \r\n                                              rock drill has an unrestricted \r\n                                              axial hole of not less than \r\n                                              three-sixteenths of an inch \r\n                                              diameter through which water may \r\n                                              be fed to the bit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) an adequate supply of water \r\n                                              flows through such drill steel; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) the working water pressure at \r\n                                              the rock drill is maintained at \r\n                                              fifteen pounds per square inch or \r\n                                              over.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall send or cause \r\n                                              or permit to be sent underground \r\n                                              any percussion rock drill which is \r\n                                              designed to supply water to the \r\n                                              drill steel through an internal \r\n                                              water tube unless such rock drill—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) is provided with front-head \r\n                                              air release ports having a minimum \r\n                                              effective area of release of not \r\n                                              less than 0.3 square inch if the \r\n                                              piston diameter does not exceed \r\n                                              three inches and not less than 0.4 \r\n                                              square inch if the piston&nbsp; \r\n                                              diameter exceeds three inches;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) has an undamaged water tube \r\n                                              having an inside diameter of not \r\n                                              less than 0.156 inch and an \r\n                                              outside diameter when new, of not \r\n                                              less than 0.255 inch and the end \r\n                                              of which is not more than one inch \r\n                                              from the shank end of the drill \r\n                                              steel when it is fully inserted; \r\n                                              and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) has an axial hole in the \r\n                                              piston when new, of not less than \r\n                                              0.260 inch and not more than 0.262 \r\n                                              inch in diameter for a length of \r\n                                              at least two and a half inches.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 150—Use of Wet Swab.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person underground shall \r\n                                              use or cause or permit to be used \r\n                                              any hand drill, moil or similar \r\n                                              tool, except in sampling or \r\n                                              cutting of hitches, unless water \r\n                                              is applied or a wet swab is used \r\n                                              around the drill at the collar of \r\n                                              the hole so as to allay the dust.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) No person shall commence or \r\n                                              continue to drill any hole \r\n                                              underground, or cause or permit \r\n                                              such commencement or continuation \r\n                                              of drilling unless the floor, \r\n                                              roof, sides, packs, other \r\n                                              surfaces, and broken rock of the \r\n                                              working place, to a distance of at \r\n                                              least twenty-five feet from such \r\n                                              hole, have been thoroughly wetted \r\n                                              and kept wet, except where, owing \r\n                                              to the nature of the ground, such \r\n                                              practice might be dangerous.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person shall, in any \r\n                                              underground workings of a mine, \r\n                                              move any broken rock or ground \r\n                                              liable to give off dust injurious \r\n                                              to health, or cause or allow the \r\n                                              same to be moved, if such rock or \r\n                                              ground is in a dusty condition, \r\n                                              unless it and the floor, roof, and \r\n                                              sides, packs and other surfaces of \r\n                                              the working place to a distance of \r\n                                              at least twenty-five feet are \r\n                                              effectively wetted so as to \r\n                                              prevent the escape of dust into \r\n                                              the air during removal, except \r\n                                              where owing to the nature of the \r\n                                              ground, such practice might be \r\n                                              dangerous.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No person underground shall \r\n                                              perform or cause or permit to be \r\n                                              performed work of any kind liable \r\n                                              to create dust unless and until \r\n                                              the floor, roof and sides, packs \r\n                                              and other surfaces of the working \r\n                                              place to a distance of at least \r\n                                              twenty-five feet have been \r\n                                              effectively wetted and kept wet, \r\n                                              unless such working place is \r\n                                              naturally sufficiently wet to \r\n                                              render the formation of dust \r\n                                              impossible, or except where owing \r\n                                              to the nature of the ground, such \r\n                                              practice might be dangerous.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) Where in any underground \r\n                                              working the use of water as a dust \r\n                                              suppressing agent is precluded \r\n                                              owing to the nature of the ground, \r\n                                              some efficient means shall be \r\n                                              provided and used for effectively \r\n                                              controlling the escape of dust \r\n                                              into the general body of the air.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) No person shall use or cause \r\n                                              or permit to be used compressed \r\n                                              air alone underground—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) to clean any truck or skip; or</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) to blow out any drill hole or \r\n                                              to blow over any rock surface \r\n                                              unless such hole or surface is \r\n                                              thoroughly wet; but a mixture of \r\n                                              air and water may be used.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 151—Tipping Operations, \r\n                                              etc.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              At every main tipping station, \r\n                                              rock transfer point and shaft \r\n                                              loading box, efficient means shall \r\n                                              be provided and used for \r\n                                              effectively controlling the escape \r\n                                              of dust from tipping, transferring \r\n                                              or loading operations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 152—Crushing and \r\n                                              Milling.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              At all rock crushing plant, in \r\n                                              every ore sample crushing room and \r\n                                              at every machine used for the high \r\n                                              speed milling of rock drill bits \r\n                                              or the grinding of drill steel, \r\n                                              effective means shall be provided \r\n                                              and used for effectively \r\n                                              controlling the escape of dust.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 153—Water Blast to be \r\n                                              Installed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              At every working development end, \r\n                                              excepting shafts and winzes in the \r\n                                              course of sinking, an effective \r\n                                              water blast shall be installed as \r\n                                              near as practicable to the face of \r\n                                              such development end.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 154—Air and Dust \r\n                                              Quantities to be Determined.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) At any mine where the total \r\n                                              number of persons employed \r\n                                              underground on any one shift \r\n                                              exceeds 100 persons, the quantity \r\n                                              of air circulating in each \r\n                                              ventilating district and the \r\n                                              quantity of dust present in the \r\n                                              air at each and every working \r\n                                              place shall be determined not less \r\n                                              frequently than once in three \r\n                                              months by a competent person or \r\n                                              persons:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Provided that at subsidiary \r\n                                              tipping and draw points, stopes \r\n                                              grizzlies and loading chutes, this \r\n                                              sub-regulation shall be deemed to \r\n                                              have been complied with if the \r\n                                              total number of determinations \r\n                                              made in respect of each type of \r\n                                              working place in a section is \r\n                                              equivalent to the determination at \r\n                                              every working place of that type \r\n                                              at least once in three months.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The results of the \r\n                                              determinations required shall be \r\n                                              entered in a book to be kept for \r\n                                              that purpose and shall be signed \r\n                                              by the official in charge of the \r\n                                              Ventilation Department of the \r\n                                              mine, and by the mine captain in \r\n                                              charge of the section of the mine \r\n                                              concerned.&nbsp; The book shall be \r\n                                              examined and countersigned by the \r\n                                              manager or underground manager at \r\n                                              least once a week, and shall be \r\n                                              open to inspection by any \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A monthly dust and quarterly \r\n                                              ventilation reports shall be \r\n                                              submitted to the Chief&nbsp; Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines, and the Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) At every mine a dust \r\n                                              laboratory shall be provided for \r\n                                              the purpose of determining the \r\n                                              amount of dust in the ventilating \r\n                                              current of the various working \r\n                                              places and travelling ways.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 12—LIGHTING</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 155—Stationary Lights \r\n                                              to be Provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Adequate stationary lights shall \r\n                                              be provided—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) during working hours at all \r\n                                              stations in use, landing and \r\n                                              loading places in vertical and \r\n                                              inclined shafts, as well as at all \r\n                                              stopping places in levels where \r\n                                              winding or hauling is effected by \r\n                                              means of machinery;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) at night, at all working \r\n                                              places on the surface where work \r\n                                              is being carried on.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 156—Workings Parts of \r\n                                              Machinery to be well Lighted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              All places where winding, driving, \r\n                                              permanent pumping or other \r\n                                              machinery is erected shall, while \r\n                                              such machinery is in motion, be so \r\n                                              lighted that the moving parts of \r\n                                              the same can be clearly \r\n                                              distinguished:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this regulation \r\n                                              shall not be read so as to apply \r\n                                              to skips, cages or other shaft \r\n                                              conveyances.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 157—Light to be Carried \r\n                                              in Underground, etc. Working.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Every person in any \r\n                                              underground or unilluminated part \r\n                                              of a mine shall carry a light:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that this sub-regulation \r\n                                              shall not be read to apply to \r\n                                              regulation 170(1).</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) No person shall store or carry \r\n                                              calcium carbide underground except \r\n                                              in lamps or in water-tight \r\n                                              receptacles, both to be approved \r\n                                              by the Manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person unless authorised by \r\n                                              the manager shall use or be \r\n                                              permitted to use a lighted candle \r\n                                              underground.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 13—EXPLOSIVES</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 1—Storage of \r\n                                              Explosives</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 158—Storage Conditions.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No explosives for a mine or \r\n                                              works may be stored on the surface \r\n                                              except in an explosives magazine \r\n                                              and under such conditions as are \r\n                                              set forth under the appropriate \r\n                                              enactment relating to explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Application for permission to \r\n                                              erect such a magazine for storing \r\n                                              explosives shall be made by the \r\n                                              manager of the mine to the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 159—Disposal on Mine \r\n                                              Closing.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              When any mine is closed down all \r\n                                              explosives shall be disposed of, \r\n                                              and no explosives may be stored in \r\n                                              or on any such closed-down mine \r\n                                              without permission of an Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 160—Storage of \r\n                                              Restricted Quantities of \r\n                                              Explosives Underground.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Explosives shall be stored in the \r\n                                              underground magazines in such \r\n                                              places and under such conditions \r\n                                              as may be approved by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines in writing:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that in no case shall the \r\n                                              quantity of explosives to be so \r\n                                              stored exceed that probably \r\n                                              required for use underground in \r\n                                              twenty-four hours.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 161—Naked Light \r\n                                              Prohibited.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Naked lights shall not be taken or \r\n                                              used in an explosives magazine \r\n                                              and, where possible, a protected \r\n                                              light shall be fixed outside the \r\n                                              door of the magazine so that its \r\n                                              light can be reflected into the \r\n                                              magazine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 162—Storage of Blasting \r\n                                              Powder, Detonators, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) Blasting powder shall not be \r\n                                              stored in any magazine with high \r\n                                              explosives, but shall be kept in a \r\n                                              separate compartment having its \r\n                                              own lobby and entrance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Detonators shall not be kept \r\n                                              in the same compartment with any \r\n                                              other explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Detonating fuses (e.g. cordtex), \r\n                                              shall be stored in the high \r\n                                              explosives compartment and not in \r\n                                              the same compartment as \r\n                                              detonators.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 163—Explosive Scraps to \r\n                                              be Destroyed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No scraps or broken portions of \r\n                                              cartridges shall be placed in or \r\n                                              left lying about in the magazine, \r\n                                              but shall be destroyed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 164—Loitering \r\n                                              Prohibited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Any unauthorised person loitering \r\n                                              in the immediate vicinity of an \r\n                                              explosives magazine may be \r\n                                              forthwith removed from the \r\n                                              vicinity by the manager of the \r\n                                              mine or by any person authorised \r\n                                              by the said manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 165—Magazine to be in \r\n                                              the Charge of Holder of \r\n                                              Certificate of Competency.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every explosives magazine shall be \r\n                                              in the charge of a responsible \r\n                                              person who shall be the holder of \r\n                                              a Certificate of Competency issued \r\n                                              under regulation 177 of these \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 166—Weekly Inspection \r\n                                              to be Made.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) A properly authorised person \r\n                                              or persons shall make a thorough \r\n                                              weekly inspection of all \r\n                                              explosives magazines and shall \r\n                                              make a report in writing to the \r\n                                              manager stating that such \r\n                                              examination has been made and \r\n                                              certifying as to the conditions \r\n                                              found.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The manager shall take \r\n                                              immediate steps to correct any \r\n                                              unsuitable conditions found and to \r\n                                              properly dispose of any \r\n                                              deteriorated explosives existing \r\n                                              and shall make a prompt \r\n                                              investigation when an act of \r\n                                              careless placing or handling of \r\n                                              explosives is discovered by or \r\n                                              reported to him.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any employee who commits a \r\n                                              careless act with any explosives \r\n                                              or where explosives are stored, or \r\n                                              who, having discovered such an act \r\n                                              to have been committed, omits or \r\n                                              neglects to report immediately \r\n                                              such an act to a properly \r\n                                              authorised person, shall be guilty \r\n                                              of an offence against these \r\n                                              regulations and such an offence \r\n                                              shall be immediately reported to \r\n                                              the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 2—Transport of \r\n                                              Explosives</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 167—No Undue Delay to \r\n                                              Occur During Transfer.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) The transfer of explosives \r\n                                              from the magazine shall be so \r\n                                              arranged that no undue delay shall \r\n                                              occur between the time the \r\n                                              explosives leave such magazine and \r\n                                              the time they are properly stored \r\n                                              in another magazine or distributed \r\n                                              to points of use.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Explosives shall not be left \r\n                                              at any level, station or near the \r\n                                              shaft collar or other entrance to \r\n                                              the mine but shall be transferred \r\n                                              to the underground magazine or \r\n                                              points of use without undue delay.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 168—Detonators to be \r\n                                              Transported Separately.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              In no case may detonators be \r\n                                              transported in the same conveyance \r\n                                              with other explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 169—Notice to Engine \r\n                                              Driver.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) Proper notice shall be given \r\n                                              to the engine driver, banksman and \r\n                                              skipman immediately before \r\n                                              explosives are conveyed in a shaft \r\n                                              by means of a cage or other \r\n                                              conveyance.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall place in or \r\n                                              take out of the shaft conveyance \r\n                                              any explosives except under the \r\n                                              immediate supervision of the \r\n                                              person duly authorised in writing \r\n                                              thereto by the manager or mine \r\n                                              captain.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No other material except fuses \r\n                                              and fuse igniters shall be \r\n                                              transported with explosives in any \r\n                                              shaft conveyance.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The engine driver shall gently \r\n                                              lower or raise the shaft \r\n                                              conveyance containing explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 170—Precautions While \r\n                                              Carrying Explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No person handling or carrying \r\n                                              explosives, other than safety use \r\n                                              and fuse igniters, shall at the \r\n                                              same time carry any light or lamp \r\n                                              other than an enclosed light or \r\n                                              lamp.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Explosives (unless such \r\n                                              explosives be contained in \r\n                                              unopened cases) shall only be \r\n                                              carried in canisters or boxes of \r\n                                              types approved of in writing by \r\n                                              the Inspector under such \r\n                                              conditions as he may prescribe in \r\n                                              writing, but this regulation shall \r\n                                              not apply to the carriage of \r\n                                              explosives in working places while \r\n                                              the holes are being charged.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In no case shall detonators or \r\n                                              any other material be carried in \r\n                                              the canister or box containing \r\n                                              explosives.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) No person shall be permitted \r\n                                              to smoke when handling or carrying \r\n                                              explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 171—Precautions in \r\n                                              Haulage Ways.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Where explosives are transported \r\n                                              in underground mine workings by \r\n                                              means of a truck or trucks the \r\n                                              speed of any truck or trucks shall \r\n                                              not at any time exceed four miles \r\n                                              per hour and definite arrangements \r\n                                              for the right-of-way of such truck \r\n                                              or trucks carrying explosives \r\n                                              shall be made before the truck or \r\n                                              trucks are moved.&nbsp; Where \r\n                                              locomotive haulage is used the \r\n                                              locomotive shall be maintained on \r\n                                              the forward end of any train \r\n                                              carrying explosives unless some \r\n                                              person walks in advance of the \r\n                                              train to effectively guard the \r\n                                              same.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 3—Receipt and \r\n                                              Distribution of Explosives</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 172—Receipt and \r\n                                              Delivery of Explosives.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The person in charge of any \r\n                                              explosives magazine shall be \r\n                                              responsible for the proper \r\n                                              receipt, storage and distribution \r\n                                              of the explosives and shall keep \r\n                                              full particulars of all receipts \r\n                                              and deliveries in the &quot;Explosives \r\n                                              Storage Book&quot; which shall be kept \r\n                                              in the magazine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) He shall not knowingly receive \r\n                                              or deliver explosives which are \r\n                                              not in good order and condition.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No explosives may be issued \r\n                                              from a magazine unless upon the \r\n                                              written order of an authorised \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The delivery of explosives to \r\n                                              the person in charge of each \r\n                                              working place shall be clearly and \r\n                                              accurately recorded.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 173—Only Probable \r\n                                              Amount of Explosives Required for \r\n                                              the Shift to be Issued.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Only the probably quantity of \r\n                                              explosives required for the use of \r\n                                              the shift shall be issued from the \r\n                                              underground magazine to the person \r\n                                              in charge of each working place, \r\n                                              and explosives so issued shall be \r\n                                              placed in securely closed \r\n                                              canisters or boxes and shall be \r\n                                              conveyed directly from the \r\n                                              magazine to the working place.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Explosives shall only be \r\n                                              issued to the person in charge of \r\n                                              the working place a short time \r\n                                              before the working place is ready \r\n                                              for blasting.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 174—The Mine Explosives \r\n                                              Only to be Used.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall use at his \r\n                                              working place any explosives which \r\n                                              are not supplied to him from the \r\n                                              magazine of the mine where he is \r\n                                              employed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) No person shall take away from \r\n                                              the mine workings any explosives \r\n                                              without the written permission of \r\n                                              the manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) No person shall secrete or be \r\n                                              in possession of explosives in or \r\n                                              about a mine or works except as \r\n                                              provided for in these Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 175—Precaution in \r\n                                              Opening Cases.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Only implements of wood, brass or \r\n                                              copper may be used in opening \r\n                                              cases containing explosives except \r\n                                              where cases are screwed down, when \r\n                                              an iron screw-driver may be used \r\n                                              to withdraw the screws but for no \r\n                                              other purpose.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 176—Smoking etc., \r\n                                              Forbidden in Magazine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No person while in an explosives \r\n                                              magazine shall smoke or carry \r\n                                              anything which might cause \r\n                                              combustion.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Sub-Division 4—Use of Explosives, \r\n                                              Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 177—Certificate of \r\n                                              Competency for Blasting.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall conduct or be \r\n                                              permitted to conduct any blasting \r\n                                              operations or the preparation of \r\n                                              any charges, and no person shall \r\n                                              have charge of, or be permitted to \r\n                                              have charge of, any section or \r\n                                              working place of a mine where \r\n                                              blasting operations are being \r\n                                              carried on unless he is the holder \r\n                                              of a Certificate of Competency \r\n                                              granted by the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines in accordance with \r\n                                              sub-regulation (2) of this \r\n                                              regulation.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Every applicant for a \r\n                                              Certificate of Competency shall be \r\n                                              examined by a board which shall \r\n                                              consist of an Inspector and a \r\n                                              person nominated by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.&nbsp;&nbsp; The board \r\n                                              shall keep a record of all persons \r\n                                              so examined, and shall forward to \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines its \r\n                                              recommendations in respect of each \r\n                                              person so examined.&nbsp; On receipt of \r\n                                              such recommendations the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines may issue a \r\n                                              Certificate of Competency to the \r\n                                              applicant and such Certificate may \r\n                                              be endorsed by the Chief Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines at his discretion with \r\n                                              special restrictions as to the \r\n                                              purpose and place of use, and \r\n                                              shall contain such means of \r\n                                              identification of the holder as \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines may \r\n                                              require.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Any person to whom a \r\n                                              Certificate of Competency has been \r\n                                              issued and who in the opinion of \r\n                                              the Inspector is guilty of \r\n                                              inattention or negligence in the \r\n                                              execution of his duties or is \r\n                                              guilty of any misconduct likely to \r\n                                              be detrimental to the efficient \r\n                                              discharge of his duties, may have \r\n                                              his certificate endorsed, \r\n                                              suspended or withdrawn by the \r\n                                              Inspector, who shall forthwith \r\n                                              report any such endorsement, \r\n                                              suspension or withdrawal to the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that an appeal shall lie \r\n                                              from the decision of the Inspector \r\n                                              to the Chief Inspector of Mines, \r\n                                              and notice of appeal shall be \r\n                                              given within 14 days of such \r\n                                              endorsement, suspension or \r\n                                              withdrawal.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) No person shall be the holder \r\n                                              of a Certificate of Competency to \r\n                                              conduct blasting operations who, \r\n                                              in the opinion of a qualified \r\n                                              medical practitioner, has \r\n                                              defective sight or hearing or is \r\n                                              subject to any other bodily \r\n                                              infirmity likely to interfere with \r\n                                              the efficient discharge of his \r\n                                              duties.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 178—Charging or Drill \r\n                                              Holes, etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person who is not the \r\n                                              holder of a Certificate of \r\n                                              Competency shall charge or be \r\n                                              permitted to charge any drill hole \r\n                                              on a mine.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Non-certificated persons \r\n                                              working under the continuous \r\n                                              control and responsibility of a \r\n                                              certificated blastman may handle \r\n                                              the container or tube and valve of \r\n                                              the injector pipe when charging a \r\n                                              round with ANBA/ANFO.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) In the preparation of charges \r\n                                              and the firing of such charges the \r\n                                              holder of a Certificate of \r\n                                              Competency may be assisted by \r\n                                              reliable persons who are not \r\n                                              holders of such certificate when \r\n                                              acting under his direct \r\n                                              supervision, but such holder shall \r\n                                              be personally responsible for any \r\n                                              accident occurring by reason of \r\n                                              the ignorance, inexperience or \r\n                                              carelessness of such other \r\n                                              persons.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (4) No person other than the \r\n                                              holder of a Certificate of \r\n                                              Competency shall remove or attempt \r\n                                              to remove the wooden plug with \r\n                                              which a misfired hole or socket of \r\n                                              a hole has been plugged.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) No person shall place a naked \r\n                                              light in or on a box in which \r\n                                              there are explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) No person other than a holder \r\n                                              of a Certificate of Competency \r\n                                              shall open or interfere in any \r\n                                              manner whatsoever with a box \r\n                                              containing explosives.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) No person whilst handling \r\n                                              explosives or assisting in the \r\n                                              preparation of charges shall \r\n                                              smoke.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) No person shall extract or \r\n                                              attempt to extract tamping or \r\n                                              explosives from a hole which has \r\n                                              once been charged except that the \r\n                                              holder of a Certificate of \r\n                                              Competency may extract such \r\n                                              tamping or explosives by means of \r\n                                              water under adequate pressure or \r\n                                              water and compressed air under \r\n                                              adequate pressure applied through \r\n                                              a pipe of a design and material \r\n                                              approved by the Inspector:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Provided that where such water and \r\n                                              compressed air are not ordinarily \r\n                                              available a holder of a \r\n                                              Certificate of Competency may \r\n                                              extract tamping only by means of a \r\n                                              wooden or copper scraper, to the \r\n                                              extent of allowing a misfired hole \r\n                                              being again blasted.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) No person shall deepen or \r\n                                              cause or permit to be deepened a \r\n                                              hole which has been left standing, \r\n                                              unless it is positively known that \r\n                                              it has no been previously charged \r\n                                              with explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 179—Rules to be \r\n                                              Observed by the Holder of a \r\n                                              Certificate of Competency.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every holder of a Certificate of \r\n                                              Competency shall be personally \r\n                                              responsible for the due and proper \r\n                                              observance of the following \r\n                                              rules:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The box or canister containing \r\n                                              explosives, other than detonators, \r\n                                              shall be kept in a dry place at a \r\n                                              safe distance from working \r\n                                              places.&nbsp; On the cover of the box \r\n                                              or canister, or on a board against \r\n                                              the wall above it, the work \r\n                                              &quot;Explosives&quot; must be painted in \r\n                                              distinctly legible letters.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No other material implements \r\n                                              or tools other than fuse shall be \r\n                                              placed in the box or canister \r\n                                              containing explosives or \r\n                                              detonators.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) The holder of a Certificate of \r\n                                              Competency shall keep all \r\n                                              detonators under his charge in a \r\n                                              separate box provided for that \r\n                                              purpose at a distance of at least \r\n                                              40 feet from any other box \r\n                                              containing explosives, in a place \r\n                                              that is dry and at a safe distance \r\n                                              from working places.&nbsp; On the cover \r\n                                              of the box, or on a board against \r\n                                              the wall above it, the word \r\n                                              &quot;Detonators&quot; must be painted in \r\n                                              distinctly legible letters.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) He shall remove all naked \r\n                                              lights to a safe distance before \r\n                                              any case or canister containing \r\n                                              explosives is opened and also \r\n                                              during the preparation of charges.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (5) He shall before commencing \r\n                                              work either at the beginning of \r\n                                              the&nbsp; shift or after blasting be \r\n                                              the first to enter the working \r\n                                              place, and, until he considers it \r\n                                              safe, he shall not allow any \r\n                                              workman to proceed thereto except \r\n                                              those required by him to make the \r\n                                              place safe and then only when they \r\n                                              are acting under his direct \r\n                                              supervision.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (6) He shall before the \r\n                                              commencement of drilling \r\n                                              operations on the working face \r\n                                              under his charge and before \r\n                                              indicating the positions of the \r\n                                              holes to be drilled on such \r\n                                              working face—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) remove or cause to be removed \r\n                                              all loose and loosened rock and \r\n                                              ground from the face and immediate \r\n                                              vicinity of the working face and \r\n                                              carefully examine such face and \r\n                                              its immediate vicinity with a view \r\n                                              to discovering misfired holes or \r\n                                              sockets of holes;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) when water is ordinarily \r\n                                              available wash or cause the face \r\n                                              of the working to be washed with \r\n                                              water to detect the presence of a \r\n                                              misfired hole or socket;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) thoroughly examine every \r\n                                              socket and if water under adequate \r\n                                              pressure or compressed air \r\n                                              together with water is ordinarily \r\n                                              available wash out such sockets by \r\n                                              means of a pipe of design and \r\n                                              material approved by the Inspector \r\n                                              of Mines and when such water and \r\n                                              compressed air is not ordinarily \r\n                                              available examine and ascertain by \r\n                                              clearing with a wooden or copper \r\n                                              scraper that all such sockets \r\n                                              contain no explosives;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (d) plug with a wooden plug of a \r\n                                              type approved by the Inspector and \r\n                                              mark with a circle all misfired \r\n                                              holes;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (e) plug with a wooden plug of a \r\n                                              type approved by the Inspector all \r\n                                              sockets thereby indicating that \r\n                                              such sockets have been thoroughly \r\n                                              cleaned and examined for \r\n                                              explosives; and</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (f) keep on hand a sufficient \r\n                                              supply of the aforementioned \r\n                                              wooden plugs.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (7) No person shall drill or cause \r\n                                              or permit to be drilled any hole, \r\n                                              unless such hole is placed more \r\n                                              than six inches from any socket \r\n                                              and given such a direction that it \r\n                                              will not come nearer to any socket \r\n                                              or the line or direction thereof \r\n                                              than six inches.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (8) In stopes and in surface \r\n                                              workings no person shall drill or \r\n                                              cause or permit to be drilled any \r\n                                              hole within six feet of a misfired \r\n                                              hole and any hole drilled near a \r\n                                              misfired hole shall be pitched in \r\n                                              such a direction that no part of \r\n                                              the hole comes nearer to any part \r\n                                              of the misfired hole than six \r\n                                              feet.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (9) In development ends and \r\n                                              similar confined workings every \r\n                                              misfired hole shall be blasted or \r\n                                              blown out as provided for in \r\n                                              regulation 178 (8) of these \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (10) He shall point out to each \r\n                                              driller working under him and, \r\n                                              wherever possible, clearly mark \r\n                                              with chalk, paint or other \r\n                                              material, the exact position and \r\n                                              direction of any hole to be \r\n                                              drilled and no person shall in \r\n                                              drilling deviate from the position \r\n                                              and direction indicated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (11) He shall acquaint every \r\n                                              person working under him of the \r\n                                              dangers attending a contravention \r\n                                              of regulations 178 and 179 (1-10) \r\n                                              of these Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (12) He shall thoroughly clean out \r\n                                              all drill holes before attempting \r\n                                              to charge them up.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (13) Explosives other than ANBA/ANFO \r\n                                              shall not be used in a drill hole \r\n                                              except in the form of a cartridge.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (14) When blasting with dynamite \r\n                                              or other nitroglycerine compound \r\n                                              explosives, he shall only insert \r\n                                              the detonator with the attached \r\n                                              fuse in the primer cartridge \r\n                                              shortly before use, and the fuse \r\n                                              shall be attached to the detonator \r\n                                              by means of a properly designed \r\n                                              instrument approved of by the \r\n                                              Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (15) He shall in making up a \r\n                                              charge after inserting the \r\n                                              detonator with attached fuse in \r\n                                              the primer cartridge, securely \r\n                                              fasten it to the said cartridge by \r\n                                              means of string or other suitable \r\n                                              material so that the fuse and \r\n                                              detonator cannot be inadvertently \r\n                                              withdrawn.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (16) He shall not in charging any \r\n                                              hole with nitroglycerine compound \r\n                                              explosives in cartridged form or \r\n                                              in tamping holes for blasting use \r\n                                              any implement other than of wood, \r\n                                              brass, copper or plastic.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (17) He shall not forcibly press \r\n                                              any cartridged explosives into a \r\n                                              hole of insufficient size.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (18) He shall only use sand \r\n                                              loosely filled in, sand and slimes \r\n                                              mixed and made up in cartridged \r\n                                              form, soft clay slightly tamped or \r\n                                              water as tamping material for \r\n                                              charges of dynamite or other high \r\n                                              explosives.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (19) He shall before firing \r\n                                              charges give or cause to be given \r\n                                              due warning in every direction by \r\n                                              shouting &quot;Fire&quot; and all entrances \r\n                                              to the place or places where such \r\n                                              charges are being fired or where \r\n                                              the safety of persons may be \r\n                                              endangered by such firing shall be \r\n                                              guarded to prevent inadvertent \r\n                                              access thereto whilst firing \r\n                                              operations are going on.&nbsp; The \r\n                                              guards so posted shall reply \r\n                                              &quot;Fire&quot; to his shout of &quot;Fire&quot; \r\n                                              before the charges are lit.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (20) He shall only use fuse \r\n                                              igniters supplied by the manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (21) He shall in all development \r\n                                              faces immediately after lighting \r\n                                              up put into action the water blast \r\n                                              which he shall previously have \r\n                                              tested.&nbsp; If as a result of such \r\n                                              test the water blast shall be \r\n                                              found to be not in order no \r\n                                              blasting shall take place.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (22) ANBA/ANFO explosives shall \r\n                                              not be electrically initiated \r\n                                              without the prior approval in \r\n                                              writing of the Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (23) He shall, except in the case \r\n                                              of electric firing or firing by \r\n                                              means of detonating fuse, count in \r\n                                              conjunction with at least one \r\n                                              other person the number of shots \r\n                                              exploding.&nbsp; Unless he and such \r\n                                              other person are certain that all \r\n                                              the shots have exploded, he shall \r\n                                              not allow any person to enter the \r\n                                              working place in which the shots \r\n                                              have been fired for a period of \r\n                                              thirty minutes after the fuses \r\n                                              were lighted, and, shall if such \r\n                                              misfire occurs at change of shift \r\n                                              forthwith report any misfire, as \r\n                                              well as any other matter requiring \r\n                                              attention, to the mine captain or \r\n                                              shift boss and to the person in \r\n                                              charge of the next following \r\n                                              shift.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (24) When charging ANBA/ANFO in \r\n                                              loose form into any drill hole, an \r\n                                              injector pipe made of aluminium, \r\n                                              brass, copper, plastic or of any \r\n                                              combination of these materials may \r\n                                              be used provided the pipe forms a \r\n                                              continuous conductor of \r\n                                              electricity and is effectively \r\n                                              earthed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (25) He shall not where firing \r\n                                              takes place by means of \r\n                                              electricity enter or allow any \r\n                                              other person to enter the place or \r\n                                              places where shots have been \r\n                                              exploded until he has disconnected \r\n                                              the cable from the battery or \r\n                                              exploder.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (26) He shall after firing holes \r\n                                              by means of detonating fuse or \r\n                                              electricity and in the latter case \r\n                                              disconnecting the cables from the \r\n                                              battery or exploder, carefully \r\n                                              examine the place in which the \r\n                                              charges have been so fired before \r\n                                              permitting men to work therein and \r\n                                              shall instruct those employed in \r\n                                              clearing away the loose rock from \r\n                                              such place after such examination, \r\n                                              to report immediately to him the \r\n                                              finding of any detonating fuse or \r\n                                              wires in or under the loose rock \r\n                                              and in the event of any such \r\n                                              detonating fuse or wire being \r\n                                              discovered shall at once order all \r\n                                              work in the working place to cease \r\n                                              until he has carefully traced such \r\n                                              detonating fuse or wire to its \r\n                                              terminal in order to determine \r\n                                              whether a misfire has occurred.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (27) He shall not after blasting \r\n                                              has taken place enter or allow any \r\n                                              person to enter the working in \r\n                                              which such blasting has occurred, \r\n                                              until the fumes caused by the \r\n                                              explosion shall have been \r\n                                              sufficiently dissipated.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (28) He shall take all reasonable \r\n                                              measures to safeguard all persons \r\n                                              who may be working in the same \r\n                                              place as himself against accident, \r\n                                              whether they are under his direct \r\n                                              supervision or not.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (29) Misfired holes containing \r\n                                              ANBA/ANFO explosives shall be \r\n                                              thoroughly washed out and the \r\n                                              resultant sockets plugged.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 14—WORKMEN</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 180—Record of Employees \r\n                                              to be Kept.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A \r\n                                              sufficient record must be kept in \r\n                                              the office at every mine of all \r\n                                              persons employed in and about the \r\n                                              mine or works.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 181—Contracts not to \r\n                                              Remove Responsibility.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The fact that a person is employed \r\n                                              as a contractor or tributer in or \r\n                                              about a mine shall not be taken to \r\n                                              relieve the manager of any \r\n                                              personal responsibility under \r\n                                              these Regulations.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 182—Change House to be \r\n                                              Provided for Persons Employed \r\n                                              underground.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Save where an exemption \r\n                                              therefrom in writing is granted by \r\n                                              the Chief Inspector of Mines, \r\n                                              there shall be provided in every \r\n                                              mine for use by all persons \r\n                                              employed underground such change \r\n                                              house accommodation as is in the \r\n                                              opinion of the Inspector \r\n                                              appropriate for the mine, \r\n                                              including adequate facilities for \r\n                                              bathing and for changing and also \r\n                                              for drying of clothing:&nbsp; Provided \r\n                                              that engine and boiler houses \r\n                                              shall not be used for the purposes \r\n                                              aforesaid.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Except where exempted by the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines in \r\n                                              writing, a suitable and efficient  shelter shall be provided for \r\n                                              persons at or near the mouth of \r\n                                              each shaft.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 183—No Intoxicating \r\n                                              Liquor to be Allowed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No intoxicating liquor shall \r\n                                              be taken by any person into the \r\n                                              workings of any mine or works, or \r\n                                              to any place of work unless with \r\n                                              the special permission of the \r\n                                              manager, and any workman, who \r\n                                              without such permission, has \r\n                                              intoxicating liquor in his \r\n                                              possession whilst at work or at a \r\n                                              place of work shall be deemed \r\n                                              guilty of an offence against these \r\n                                              Regulations.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person suspected of being \r\n                                              in a state of intoxication or in \r\n                                              any other condition which may \r\n                                              render, or be likely to render him \r\n                                              incapable of taking care of \r\n                                              himself or of persons under his \r\n                                              charge, shall be allowed to enter \r\n                                              a mine or to be in proximity to \r\n                                              any working place on the surface \r\n                                              or near to any machinery in \r\n                                              motion, and any person who may \r\n                                              have entered a mine or works or be \r\n                                              found at any working place above \r\n                                              or below ground in an apparent \r\n                                              state of intoxicating may \r\n                                              immediately be arrested by the \r\n                                              manager or some person duly \r\n                                              authorised by him, and immediately \r\n                                              handed over to the Police and \r\n                                              shall be deemed to be guilty of an \r\n                                              offence against these Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 184—Fighting or \r\n                                              Unlawful Assault.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No person shall take part in a \r\n                                              fight or commit an unlawful \r\n                                              assault in or about a mine or \r\n                                              works and any person so doing \r\n                                              shall be guilty of an offence \r\n                                              against these Regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 185—Sleeping in Mine, \r\n                                              etc. Prohibited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall sleep in any mine \r\n                                              or works or on the surface in any \r\n                                              building in which there is a \r\n                                              boiler (or boilers) under steam or \r\n                                              machinery in motion, and any \r\n                                              person found sleeping in any of \r\n                                              the above-mentioned places shall \r\n                                              be guilty of an offence against \r\n                                              these Regulations.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 186—Naked Lights on \r\n                                              Timber, etc., Prohibited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall leave any naked \r\n                                              light on any timber or other \r\n                                              inflammable material either in the \r\n                                              mine or in any working place on \r\n                                              the surface.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 187—Hard Hats.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              All persons working underground \r\n                                              shall wear a miner''s hard hat of a \r\n                                              type approved by the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 188—Boots.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person who fails to wear \r\n                                              boots of a type approved by the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines shall be \r\n                                              permitted to go or work \r\n                                              underground in any mine.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where a person fails to wear \r\n                                              approved boots underground, the \r\n                                              failure, in addition to being a \r\n                                              breach of this regulation shall if \r\n                                              that person meets with an injury \r\n                                              to his feet, be deemed to have \r\n                                              contributed to the injury </span>\r\n                                              </p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 189—Goggles</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Suitable goggles or effective \r\n                                              screens shall be provided to \r\n                                              protect the eyes of persons \r\n                                              engaged in the dry grinding of \r\n                                              metals, in the electrical or \r\n                                              oxyacetylene welding or cutting of \r\n                                              metals or in any other work likely \r\n                                              to entail injury to the eyes.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 190—Loose Clothing \r\n                                              Prohibited.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person attending to or working \r\n                                              in close proximity to moving \r\n                                              machinery shall wear loose outer \r\n                                              clothing.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 191—Persons Infected \r\n                                              with Tuberculosis Prohibited from \r\n                                              Entering Underground Workings.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No person known to the manager to \r\n                                              be infected with tuberculosis \r\n                                              shall enter or be allowed to enter \r\n                                              the underground workings of any \r\n                                              mine for the purpose of working \r\n                                              therein and no manager shall \r\n                                              employ such person underground \r\n                                              knowing that he is so infected.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 192—Duty to Wear Life \r\n                                              Line.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall work at a \r\n                                              vertical or steeply inclined place \r\n                                              where there is a danger that he \r\n                                              may fall unless such person is \r\n                                              provided with a suitable life line \r\n                                              for his protection and it shall be \r\n                                              his duty to wear and be secured by \r\n                                              such life line.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall descend or be \r\n                                              permitted to descend into any \r\n                                              storage bin, ore pass or similar \r\n                                              place unless wearing a suitable \r\n                                              life line and unless a second \r\n                                              person is in constant attendance \r\n                                              and precautions are taken against \r\n                                              the danger of caving or falling \r\n                                              material.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 193—Restrictions on \r\n                                              Ascending a Chute, Etc.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No person shall be ordered to \r\n                                              ascend a chute, ore pass, sand \r\n                                              pass, raise, shaft, or box-hole \r\n                                              for the purpose of releasing or \r\n                                              blasting a choke.&nbsp; Any person \r\n                                              giving orders contrary to this \r\n                                              regulation shall be liable to the \r\n                                              penalty provided.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No attempt to enter from above \r\n                                              a blocked chute, pass, raise, \r\n                                              shaft or box-hole for the purpose \r\n                                              of freeing same, shall be made by \r\n                                              any person without direct \r\n                                              instructions from the manager, \r\n                                              underground manager or mine \r\n                                              captain; and the work involved \r\n                                              shall be continuously under the \r\n                                              personal supervision of the mine \r\n                                              captain or a shift boss.&nbsp; No \r\n                                              volunteer shall be permitted to \r\n                                              ascend the blocked chute, pass, \r\n                                              raise, shaft or box-hole unless \r\n                                              personally authorised by and in \r\n                                              the presence of the mine captain \r\n                                              who shall then be in charge.&nbsp; The \r\n                                              proof that such authorisation was \r\n                                              justified shall lie on the mine \r\n                                              captain.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 15—TRIBUTERS</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 194—Tributers may be \r\n                                              prohibited.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) It shall be lawful for the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines, whenever \r\n                                              in his opinion it may be necessary \r\n                                              to secure safe or economic mining \r\n                                              of the area covered by any licence \r\n                                              granted under part 4 of the \r\n                                              Concessions Ordinance (Cap. 136) \r\n                                              or section 5 of the Rivers \r\n                                              Ordinance (Cap. 226) to prohibit \r\n                                              the licence holder from employing \r\n                                              tributers to mine such area, and \r\n                                              the employment of tributers to \r\n                                              mine underground is at all times \r\n                                              prohibited save with the prior \r\n                                              permission in writing of the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The Chief Inspector of Mines \r\n                                              may, in the case of a manager of \r\n                                              such area being convicted of an \r\n                                              offence against this Part, \r\n                                              prohibit mining by tributers on \r\n                                              such area.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 195—Token to be Issued \r\n                                              to Tributers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No person shall be employed as a \r\n                                              tributer unless issued with a \r\n                                              token by the manager.&nbsp; Such token \r\n                                              shall be of a distinctive pattern \r\n                                              and have a serial number.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 196—Tributer''s \r\n                                              Register.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The manager shall keep a \r\n                                              tributers'' register in a securely \r\n                                              bound book from which no pages may \r\n                                              be removed and in which shall be \r\n                                              recorded the name and nationality \r\n                                              of every tributer who works on the \r\n                                              area together with the serial \r\n                                              number and date of issue of the \r\n                                              token of each such tributer.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Before the manager registers a \r\n                                              tributer and issues to him a token \r\n                                              he shall make reasonable enquiry \r\n                                              to ascertain that such tributer is \r\n                                              not so registered with any other \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 197—Offences in Respect \r\n                                              of Registration and Tokens.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (1) No person shall work as a \r\n                                              tributer unless he is duly \r\n                                              registered as such and is in \r\n                                              possession, at the time and place \r\n                                              of working, of a token duly issued \r\n                                              under the provisions of these \r\n                                              regulations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No tributer shall be in \r\n                                              possession of more than one token \r\n                                              or any token other than his own, \r\n                                              and no person other than a \r\n                                              registered tributer shall be in \r\n                                              possession of such token:</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Provided that the provisions of \r\n                                              this regulation shall not apply to \r\n                                              the possession of tokens by the \r\n                                              manager, or his representative for \r\n                                              the purpose of these regulations.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A registered tributer shall on \r\n                                              ceasing to work for the person \r\n                                              with whom he is registered return \r\n                                              his token to such person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (4) The manager shall delete \r\n                                              forthwith from his register of \r\n                                              tributers the name of any tributer \r\n                                              who returns his token or who is \r\n                                              dismissed by the manager or who \r\n                                              ceases to work for the manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 198—Duties of Manager; \r\n                                              Safety.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The manager shall provide for \r\n                                              the safety and proper discipline \r\n                                              of the persons employed as \r\n                                              tributers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) The manager or his \r\n                                              representative shall be present on \r\n                                              the area when tributers are mining \r\n                                              or dressing mineral.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 199—Limitation of Hours \r\n                                              of Work and Movement of Mineral.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) The manager shall not permit \r\n                                              any tributer to mine or dress \r\n                                              mineral between sunset and sunrise \r\n                                              save with the prior permission in \r\n                                              writing of the Chief Inspector of \r\n                                              Mines. </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) A tributer shall not move any \r\n                                              mineral between sunset and sunrise \r\n                                              except mineral which has been \r\n                                              received by the manager or his \r\n                                              representative and under the \r\n                                              direct supervision of such manager \r\n                                              or representative.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) A tributer may only move \r\n                                              mineral between sunrise and sunset \r\n                                              and within the boundaries of the \r\n                                              area in respect of which he is \r\n                                              registered except mineral which \r\n                                              has been received by the manager \r\n                                              or his representative and under \r\n                                              direct supervision of such manager \r\n                                              or representative.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 200—Tributer to Work \r\n                                              Only on Area for Which he is \r\n                                              Registered.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No tributer shall work or mine on \r\n                                              any area other than the area in \r\n                                              respect of which he is registered \r\n                                              and in possession of a token and \r\n                                              no tributer may remove from any \r\n                                              such area any mineral won thereon \r\n                                              save as provided for in paragraphs \r\n                                              (2) and (3) of regulation 199.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 201—Tributer to Deliver \r\n                                              Mineral Only to Manager or his \r\n                                              Representative.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              No tributer shall deliver mineral \r\n                                              to any person other than the \r\n                                              manager or the representative of \r\n                                              the manager with whom he is \r\n                                              registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 202—Limitation on \r\n                                              Receipt of Mineral.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No manager or his \r\n                                              representative shall receive any \r\n                                              mineral from any tributer other \r\n                                              than a tributer duly registered by \r\n                                              him and such tributer shall, at \r\n                                              the time of such receipt, be in \r\n                                              possession of his token the \r\n                                              particulars of which shall be \r\n                                              recorded by the receiver.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Where mineral is received from \r\n                                              a tributer in accordance with the \r\n                                              provisions of these regulations \r\n                                              the persons so receiving shall \r\n                                              weigh such mineral and remunerate \r\n                                              the tributer therefor between the \r\n                                              hours of sunrise and sunset.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) Every person receiving mineral \r\n                                              from tributers in accordance with \r\n                                              these regulations shall keep a \r\n                                              tributers'' mineral record in a \r\n                                              securely bound book from which no \r\n                                              pages may be removed and in which \r\n                                              shall be recorded the mineral so \r\n                                              received together with the name \r\n                                              and token number of each tributer \r\n                                              and the quantity received from \r\n                                              such tributer: Provided that books \r\n                                              with perforated pages may be used \r\n                                              if either the original or one copy \r\n                                              remain bound in the book.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 203—All Mineral Won to \r\n                                              be Disclosed.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Every tributer attending before \r\n                                              the person to whom he may lawfully \r\n                                              deliver mineral shall disclose to \r\n                                              that person all mineral won by him \r\n                                              since he last so attended and \r\n                                              still in his possession and shall \r\n                                              deliver such mineral to that \r\n                                              person.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 204—Place of Receipt of \r\n                                              Mineral.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) No person shall receive any \r\n                                              mineral from a tributer save \r\n                                              inside the boundaries of the area \r\n                                              in respect of which the tributer \r\n                                              is registered.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) No person shall receive \r\n                                              mineral from tributers unless he \r\n                                              has, at the place of receipt at \r\n                                              the time, the tributers'' register \r\n                                              and the tributers''s mineral record \r\n                                              in respect of such tributers.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 205—Tributers not to be \r\n                                              Employed on Prospecting \r\n                                              Operations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              No person shall remunerate any \r\n                                              person in accordance with the \r\n                                              quantity of mineral obtained in \r\n                                              the course of prospecting \r\n                                              operations.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              PART 16—PROCEDURE IN CASE OF \r\n                                              ACCIDENT</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 206—Notice of Accident \r\n                                              to be Sent by Manager.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) Whenever an accident occurs at \r\n                                              a mine or any works to which these \r\n                                              Regulations apply being an \r\n                                              accident connected with the \r\n                                              working of such mine or works and \r\n                                              resulting in death or serious \r\n                                              personal injury to one or more \r\n                                              persons, the manager shall \r\n                                              immediately by the quickest means \r\n                                              available in writing, and also by \r\n                                              telegram or telephone, where \r\n                                              practicable, give notice thereof \r\n                                              to the Chief Inspector of Mines \r\n                                              and also to the Inspector of Mines \r\n                                              or to the Inspector of Machinery, \r\n                                              according to the nature of the \r\n                                              accident stating full particulars \r\n                                              regarding such accident.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (2) Serious personal injury shall \r\n                                              mean such injury as will result in \r\n                                              the injured person being \r\n                                              incapacitated from working for at \r\n                                              least fourteen days.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 207—Death Resulting \r\n                                              Subsequently to be Notified.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              When serious personal injury \r\n                                              results in the death of the person \r\n                                              injured after the official report \r\n                                              has been forwarded, or when any \r\n                                              slight injury of which no official \r\n                                              notice was given is known to \r\n                                              result in the death or \r\n                                              incapacitation for 14 days or more \r\n                                              of the person injured, the \r\n                                              manager, on being notified by the \r\n                                              medical officer to the mine, shall \r\n                                              give notice thereof to the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines and also to the \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines or to the \r\n                                              Inspector of Machinery, according \r\n                                              to the nature of the accident, \r\n                                              without delay.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 208—Place of Fatal \r\n                                              Accident to be Left Undisturbed \r\n                                              Until Examined by the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Where personal injury immediately \r\n                                              results in the death of the person \r\n                                              injured the place where the \r\n                                              accident occurred shall, after the \r\n                                              removal of the injured person or \r\n                                              persons, be left precisely at it \r\n                                              was immediately after the accident \r\n                                              until the Inspector has visited it \r\n                                              and examined it, unless it can be \r\n                                              proved that the discontinuance of \r\n                                              the work at this place would \r\n                                              endanger the lives of other \r\n                                              persons or seriously impede the \r\n                                              working of the mine: Provided that \r\n                                              should the Inspector fail from any \r\n                                              cause to attend within two days \r\n                                              after notice of the accident has \r\n                                              been given, work may be resumed at \r\n                                              the place in question, but not \r\n                                              before photographs or drawings \r\n                                              showing details of the scene of \r\n                                              the accident have been prepared.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              Regulation 209—Enquiry by \r\n                                              Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              The Inspector on the receipt of \r\n                                              the report of an accident shall, \r\n                                              if he deems it necessary, \r\n                                              immediately proceed to the place \r\n                                              where the accident has occurred \r\n                                              and shall make an enquiry into the \r\n                                              circumstances which have caused \r\n                                              it.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 210—Powers at Enquiry.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (1) For the purpose of an enquiry \r\n                                              under regulation 209 of these \r\n                                              Regulations the Inspector—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (a) may require by summons the \r\n                                              attendance at such enquiry of such \r\n                                              persons as he may think fit;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (b) may require the production at \r\n                                              the enquiry of any books, papers \r\n                                              and documents which he considers&nbsp; \r\n                                              necessary;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (c) may administer an oath under \r\n                                              the appropriate enactment relating \r\n                                              to the administration of oaths and \r\n                                              require any person examined to \r\n                                              make and sign a declaration of the \r\n                                              truth of the statements made by \r\n                                              him in his examination; no person \r\n                                              so examined can be compelled to \r\n                                              answer any question incriminating \r\n                                              himself and must be so warned by \r\n                                              the Inspector.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (2) Any person who without \r\n                                              reasonable excuse fails to comply \r\n                                              with any summons or requisition of \r\n                                              the Inspector holding such \r\n                                              enquiry, or prevents or impedes \r\n                                              such officer in the execution of \r\n                                              his duty, shall, for every such \r\n                                              offence be liable to a penalty.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (3) On the conclusion of such \r\n                                              enquiry, the Inspector shall issue \r\n                                              to the manager of the mine or \r\n                                              works a certificate that such \r\n                                              enquiry has been held, and shall \r\n                                              also in writing notify the manager \r\n                                              of the result of his enquiry \r\n                                              together with any instructions \r\n                                              issued to obviate a recurrence \r\n                                              thereof.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 211—Reports to Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines and to Coroner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              On the completion of the enquiry, \r\n                                              the Inspector shall furnish the \r\n                                              Chief Inspector of Mines with a \r\n                                              full report of the accident, and, \r\n                                              in the case of a fatal accident, \r\n                                              if it appears that there has been \r\n                                              a contravention of these \r\n                                              Regulations, the Inspector shall \r\n                                              also immediately given written \r\n                                              notice to the Coroner of the \r\n                                              district of the result of this \r\n                                              enquiry.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 212—Inquest by Coroner.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              At all inquests resulting from \r\n                                              mining accidents, or from other \r\n                                              causes specified in these \r\n                                              Regulations, held by a Coroner, \r\n                                              the Inspector shall be at liberty \r\n                                              to appear and to examine any \r\n                                              witness, subject nevertheless to \r\n                                              the order of the Coroner on point \r\n                                              of law.&nbsp; At least twenty-four \r\n                                              hours, notice of such inquest \r\n                                              shall be given to the Inspector by \r\n                                              the Coroner.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Regulation 213—Reporting \r\n                                              Non-casualty Accidents or \r\n                                              Occurrences.</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              Whether personal injury is caused \r\n                                              or not every accident or \r\n                                              occurrence included in the \r\n                                              following classification or of a \r\n                                              nature similar thereto shall be \r\n                                              reported without delay and \r\n                                              confirmed in writing to the Chief \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines and also to the \r\n                                              Inspector of Mines or the \r\n                                              Inspector of Machinery according \r\n                                              to the nature of the accident or \r\n                                              occurrence:—</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n\r\n                                              (a) Mine and Works</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              Extensive caving or subsidence;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) Serious flooding of any \r\n                                              portion of the underground \r\n                                              workings;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) Accidental fires in mines;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) Accidental ignition or \r\n                                              detonation of explosives;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (v) Any case of unconsciousness \r\n                                              arising from heatstroke or \r\n                                              inhalation of fumes or poisonous \r\n                                              gases.</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (b) Winding Engine</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) \r\n                                              Engine running out of control;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (ii) Failure of depth indicator;</span></p>\r\n\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iii) Failure of efficiency of \r\n                                              brakes;</span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">\r\n                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n                                              (iv) Failure of over-winding \r\n                                              prevention device to act when \r\n                                              required or 