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The Mines Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016
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Storage of explosives
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30.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to the temporary storage below ground at a mine of explosives for which a licence or certificate of registration for their storage is not required by virtue of regulation 10(2) and (3) of the 2006 Regulations.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the mine operator may designate as many places below ground at the mine as may be necessary for the temporary storage of explosives to which this regulation applies pending their use in shotfiring operations.
(3) Where any storage to which regulation 10(2) of the 2006 Regulations applies for which a licence or certificate of registration is not required is to take place at a site in relation to which a person holds a licence or certificate of registration, that storage may only take place there where to do so would not result in a breach of the conditions of that licence or certificate of registration.
(4) The mine operator shall not designate a place under paragraph (2) unless it is—
(a)suitable; and
(b)capable of being made secure.
(5) A place designated under paragraph (2) shall, at all times, be made secure or be supervised.
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