(1) No person shall fire a shot in any mine...
- Appoint competent shot firers and record advanced blasting authorisations Employer
UK Statutory Instrument
1956
United Kingdom
The Stratified Ironstone, Shale and Fireclay Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1956
At a glance
What's here
10 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.
- Employee 4
- Employer 3
- Any Person 3
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What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
(1) The manager of a mine shall not permit any...
- Store explosives only in appointed surface stores and appoint competent persons in charge Employer
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation the...
- Create a safety scheme for moving explosives underground in bulk Employer
It shall be the duty of the manager of every...
- Manage cleaning, testing and record-keeping for electric shot firing apparatus Any Person
(1) No shot firer or person appointed to fire shots...
- Check shot hole safety and fire all charged shots unless prevented Any Person
The manager shall make and secure the efficient carrying out...
- Ensure daily records of explosives and shot firings are kept Employee
(1) After the firing of any shot the person who...
- Check working areas are safe after firing a shot Any Person
Schemes for remedial action
- Maintain a scheme for remedial action after miss‑fires and distribute copies Employee
The manager of every mine shall ensure that horse killing...
- Appoint competent person for horse killing apparatus and clean after use Employee
(1) The manager of every mine shall ensure that cartridges...
- Manage horse-killing cartridges safely and securely Employee
Browse 47 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Except where the application thereof is further expressly limited, these...
No person shall be qualified to be appointed or to...
No person shall cap safety fuse with a detonator at...
(1) All detonators at an explosives store or at a...
(1) No person shall take any detonator below ground in...
(1) Any shot firer to whom a detonator case has...
No person shall take any explosive below ground in any...
(1) Except in pursuance of the next following regulation, no...
Each shot firer who is to fire shots by means...
No person shall fire a shot in any mine by...
No shot firer shall fire a shot by means of...
A shot firer who is in charge of any electric...
(1) If any electric shot firing apparatus appears to be...
(1) No person shall open or tamper with any electric...
(1) No person shall drill a shot hole or any...
(1) No person shall begin to charge any shot hole...
(1) No person shall charge a shot hole unless he...
(1) No shot firer or person appointed to fire shots...
(1) Except as may be provided in any scheme for...
(1) Any person charging a shot hole shall ensure that...
(1) No person shall remove any stemming from any charged...
(1) Where a round of shots is to be fired...
(1) No shot firer or person appointed to fire shots...
In every case where a shot may blow through into...
(1) Any person proposing to fire a shot shall before...
(1) No person who has been posted as a sentry...
No person other than a shot firer shall fire a...
No person shall take any explosive into a shaft or...
No person other than a shot firer shall take a...
No shot firer shall fire a shot in a shaft...
(1) No shot firer shall couple a shot firing cable...
No person shall enter a shaft or staple-pit after a...
Meaning of miss-fire
General precautions
Application of Part VIII
Issue and use of detonators
Parts of mines in which only explosives approved by the Minister may be used
Additional qualifications—shot firers and persons appointed to fire shots by fuse
Shot firing apparatus
Sheathed explosives
Precautionary examinations
Use of safety fuse with attached igniter in mines of shale
(1) Nothing in Parts II to VIII of these regulations...
(1) In any part of a mine, being a part...
Exemptions
Interpretation
Commencement and citation
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