The Mines Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions Regulations 1995

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1954 Act” means the Mines and Quarries Act 1954(1);

“the 1992 Regulations” means the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992(2);

“the 1993 Regulations” means the Management and Administration of Safety and Health at Mines Regulations 1993(3);

“approved” means approved for the time being in writing by the Executive and “approve” and “approval” shall be construed accordingly;

“employer” includes the owner if he employs persons at work at the mine;

“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive;

“gas outburst” means a sudden release of gas with or without the projection of minerals or rocks;

“the health and safety document” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 4;

“hydraulic fluid” means a fluid used for the transmission of hydrostatic or hydrokinetic mechanical energy;

“manager” means—

(a)

the person appointed as the manager of the mine under regulation 8 of the 1993 Regulations; and

(b)

in relation to a part of a mine, the person appointed as the manager of that part under regulation 15 of the 1993 Regulations;

“mine” means a mine within the meaning of the 1954 Act;

“owner” means an owner within the meaning of section 181 of the 1954 Act;

“rockburst” means a sudden failure of stopes, pillars, walls or other rock buttresses adjacent to or in the mine workings.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

(a) a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and

(b) a reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which that reference occurs.

(1)

1954 c. 70, extended by the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969 (c. 10): relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1974/2013, 2063 and S.I. 1993/1897.

(2)

S.I. 1992/2051; amended by S.I. 1994/2865.

(3)

S.I. 1993/1897.