The Coal and Other Mines (Shafts, Outlets and Roads) (Amendment) Regulations 1968

• Citation: S.I. 1968/1037
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These regulations shall come into operation on 1st September 1968 and may be cited as the Coal and Other Mines (Shafts, Outlets and Roads) (Amendment) Regulations 1968.

Section 2

(1) The Coal and Other Mines (Shafts, Outlets and Roads) Regulations 1960 shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in this regulation.

(2) For regulation 18 thereof there shall be substituted the following regulation:—

(18) At every mine a competent person appointed for that purpose by the manager shall at intervals not exceeding seven days, or in the case of a shaft or staple-pit in the course of being sunk, or of an unwalkable outlet in the course of being driven, twenty-four hours, examine thoroughly the state of every part of any shaft, staple-pit and unwalkable outlet through any part of which persons are carried, and shall forthwith make and sign in a book provided for the purpose by the owner of the mine a full and accurate report of the result of the examination:

Provided that an inspector may by notice served on the manager of the mine exempt any part of a shaft, staple-pit or unwalkable outlet thereat from the provisions of this regulation.

(3) For paragraph (6) of regulation 19 thereof there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(6) Provision shall be so made for any apparatus so used—

(a) in the case of any apparatus or part thereof made of steel of a type for the time being approved by the Minister for use in a particular manner, to be subjected to such heat treatment (if any) as may be specified in the notice of approval in relation thereto and if any such treatment is so specified at intervals not exceeding the intervals so specified; or

(b) in any other case, to be subjected to annealing or other appropriate heat treatment at intervals not exceeding six months:

Provided that an inspector may on an application made to him in that behalf, by notice served on the manager of the mine, exempt any such apparatus or part thereof from the requirements of sub-paragraph ( b ) if he is of the opinion, having regard to the material of which such apparatus or part thereof is made, the method of construction thereof or the manner in which it is used, that it is unnecessary or impracticable to require heat treatment in relation thereto