The Coal and Other Safety-Lamp Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1993

Locked containers and carriages

9.—(1) No person shall issue explosives or detonators unless they are locked in a container or (with regard to explosives only) locked in a carriage.

(2) Any person who issues a container of explosives or detonators shall ensure that it holds–

(a)in the case of a container of explosives, nothing more than explosives of the same composition and a check sheet; and

(b)in the case of a container of detonators, nothing more than detonators of the same type and a check sheet.

(3) No person who has control of a container of explosives or detonators shall place in it–

(a)in the case of a container of explosives, anything other than explosives of the same composition and a check sheet; and

(b)in the case of a container of detonators, anything other than detonators of the same type and a check sheet.

(4) The manager shall ensure that no container is issued unless it has been marked with a serial number unique to the mine.

(5) In this regulation, “check sheet” means a document for recording the number of shots fired.