Transitional and saving provisions
42.—(1) Any person who, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, was lawfully employed as a shotfirer at a coal mine in any part of which (in accordance with regulation 7 of the Coal Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1961(1)) only permitted explosives as defined by paragraph (1) of that regulation could be used shall be deemed to have been appointed as a shotfirer at the mine in question in compliance with regulation 4(1) for the period that the certificate obtained by him pursuant to regulation 10(1)(b) of the above Regulations of 1961 would have remained valid had not those Regulations been revoked by these Regulations.
(2) Any person who, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, was lawfully employed as a shotfirer at a coal mine except one in any part of which (in accordance with regulation 7 of the Coal Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1961) only permitted explosives as defined by paragraph (1) of that regulation could be used shall be deemed to have been appointed as a shotfirer at the mine in question in compliance with regulation 4(1) for the period of two years which follows the coming into force of these Regulations.
(3) Any person who, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, was lawfully employed as a shotfirer at a safety-lamp mine which is not a coal mine shall be deemed to have been appointed as a shotfirer at the mine in question in compliance with regulation 4(1).
S.I. 1961/854, amended by S.I. 1975/1102 and S.I. 1978/1648.