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55. The Chief Inspector of Mines if he is satisfied that the application of any provision of these regulations is inappropriate in relation to any mine or part thereof may by notice served on the manager of that mine exempt it or a part thereof from the application of that provision.
56.—(1) In these regulations the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—
“the Act” means
“cross measure drift”
“deputy” and “deputy's district”
“detonator”
“explosive”
“explosives store”
“firedamp content” means
“mine”
“person appointed to fire shots by fuse”
“round”, in relation to shots, means
electrically in series, either simultaneously or by means of delay detonators; or
by fuse, by means of apparatus approved for firing a number of shots by fuse simultaneously; or
where the number does not exceed four, by fuses lighted at the same time;
“safety fuse” means
“scheme of transit”
“sheathed explosive” means
“shot firer”
(2) In these regulations any reference to the use of explosive includes the charging of a shot hole therewith.
(3) Expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Act or by these regulations shall (unless the contrary intention appears) have the same meanings in any document issued under the provisions of these regulations.
(4) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
57. These regulations shall come into operation at the commencement of the Act and may be cited as the Stratified Ironstone, Shale and Fireclay Mines (Explosives) Regulations, 1956.
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