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REGULATIONS NUMBER OF COAL MINE REGULATIONS

COAL MINE REGULATIONS 2017 REGULATIONS NUMBER

1. Short title, commencement, application and extent.
2. Definitions.
3. Notice of opening
4. Annual returns
5. Notice of abandonment, closure or discontinuance
6. Notice of reopening
7. Notice of change in ownership and appointment of agent, manager, etc
8. Notice of dangerous occurrence or accident
9. Notice of disease
10. Board of Mining Examination
11. Certificate granted by Board
12. Examinations and examiners
13. . Submission of application
14. . Age limit and general qualifications of candidates
15. . Practical experience of candidates for Manager’s Certificate examination
16. Practical experience of candidates for Surveyor’s Certificate examination
17. Practical experience of candidate for Sirdar’s Certificate examination
18. Practical experience of candidate for Engine Driver’s Certificate
19. Number of attempts at examination.
20. Fees for grant of Certificates
21. Exchange Certificate
22. . Duplicate Certificate
23. Certificate to be delivered to the manager
24. Suspension or cancellation of Manager’s Certificate, Surveyor’s Certificate, Overman’s Certificate, Sirdar’s Certificate, Engine Driver’s Certificate or Gas Testing Certificate
25. Validity of certificate for managers and officials, etc
26. . Qualifications of Inspectors
27. Qualification and appointment of manager
28. Charge report of managers
29. Qualification and appointment of safety officer
30. Appointment of assistant manager
31. Qualification and appointment of ventilation officer
32. Appointment of engineers
33. Appointment and qualifications of senior officials
34. Appointment of surveyors
35. Appointment of officials and competent persons
36. General management
37. Duties and responsibilities of owner
38. General responsibilities of supplier, manufacturer and designer
39. Responsibilities of contractor
40. Duties of person employed in mines
41. Duties of competent person
42. Duties of officials
43. Duties and responsibilities of manager
44. . Duties of safety officer
45. Duties and responsibilities of assistant manager
46. Duties of ventilation officer
47. Duties and responsibilities of overman
48. Duties and responsibilities of sirdar
49. Duties and responsibilities of shotfirer
50. Duties of support man
51. Duties of attendant of main mechanical ventilator
52. Duties of lamp room in-charge
53. Duties and responsibilities of surveyor
54. Duties and responsibilities of engineer–
55. Duties of winding engineman
56. Duties of banksman and onsetter
57. Duties of haulage engineman, attendant, etc
58. Duties of locomotive driver
59. Duties of cutting and loading machine driver and mechanic or fitter
60. Duties of magazine in-charge
61. Duties of register keeper and attendance clerk, etc
62. Duties of operators of heavy earth moving machineries, excluding trucks, tippers and dumpers
63. Duties of truck, tipper and dumper operator
64. General requirements about mine plans
65. Type of plans
66. Plans and sections to be submitted after abandonment, closure or discontinuance
67. Survey instruments and materials
68. List of plans, sections and instruments and their storage
69. Preparation of plans by surveyors
70. Plans to be checked on change of ownership or on reopening, etc
71. Outlets from a mine
72. Working shafts
73. Fencings and gates at outlets
74. Outlets from mine parts
75. Periodic examination of shaft, incline and other outlets
76. Appointment of winding engineman
77. New winding installations
78. Construction and installation of winding equipment
79. Fittings of winding engines
80. Shaft fittings
81. Man winding
82. Multi-decks
83. Winding of material
84. Winding in sinking shafts
85. Winding ropes, etc
86. Suspension gear
87. Precautions after recapping, etc
88. Examination of winding equipment
89. Gates and fences
90. Duties of persons riding or working in shafts
91. General precautions
92. Haulage roadways
93. Travelling roadways
94. Tubs and their movement
95. Brakes of haulage engines
96. Haulage ropes
97. Roadway conveyors
98. Examination of haulage engines
99. Examination of haulage and travelling roadways
100. Locomotives
101. Roads for trucks and dumpers
102. Movement of wagons
103. Fencings and gates
104. Safety management plan
105. Manual opencast working
106. Mechanised opencast working
107. Reclamation
108. Spoil-banks and dumps.
109. Transport rules
110. Transport rules
111. Development work
112. Depillaring operations
113. Extraction of Coal by method other than bord and pillar system
114. Saving
115. Roads and working places
116. Powers of Inspectors
117. Pointing out of contraventions during inspections
118. Multi-section and contiguous working
119. Working under railways and roads, etc
120. Protective work before a mine is closed
121. Working near mine boundaries in belowground mines
122. Working near mine boundaries in opencast mines
123. Strata Control and Monitoring Plan
124. Setting of support
125. Withdrawal of supports
126. Provision of roof canopies or cabs
127. Steep working
128. Fencings and gates
129. Examination by sirdars
130. Avoidance of dangers
131. Working at height
132. General precautions
133. Classification of coal seams according to their degree of gassiness
134. General precautions against fire
135. Surface precautions against fire
136. Underground precautions against fire
137. Precaution against spontaneous heating
138. Precautions after a fire has broken out
139. Equipment for fire-fighting
140. Organisation for fire fighting
141. Apparatus for testing for carbon monoxide
142. Precautions when a fire exists
143. Precaution against dust
144. Execution of measures for dust control
145. Check on measures for dust control
146. Stone dust barriers
147. Precautions against eruption of gas
148. Recovery and exploratory work
149. Danger from surface water
150. Danger from underground inundation
151. Intentional flooding
152. Construction of reservoir, water dam, etc
153. Standard of ventilation
154. Main mechanical ventilator, its drive and fittings
155. Restriction on installation of mechanical ventilator belowground
156. Installation and maintenance of mechanical ventilator
157. Standing orders
158. Splits and airways
159. Brattices, doors, stoppings and air-crossings
160. Velocity of air current
161. Auxiliary fans
162. Precautions against fire in ventilation appliances
163. Ventilation plans to be brought up-to-date
164. Obstructions, interruptions and alterations
165. Precautions against gas during de-watering and re-opening
166. Precautions against inflammable and noxious gases
167. Inspection of unused working for gas
168. Safety lamps to be used in belowground mines
169. Determination of percentage of inflammable gas and of environmental conditions
170. Monitoring devices
171. General precautions in gassy mines
172. Contrabands
173. Underground relighting stations
174. Whitewashing
175. General lighting
176. Electric lighting in gassy mines
177. Every person to carry a light
178. Standard of lighting
179. Maintenance and examination of safety lamps
180. Use of safety lamps
181. Maintenance and repairs of safety lamps
182. Precautions to be taken in safety lamp-rooms
183. Type of explosives to be used in mines
184. Storage of explosives
185. Magazines, stores and premises to store explosives
186. Cases and containers for carrying explosives
187. Transport of explosives
188. Transport of explosives in bulk
189. Reserve Station
190. Shot-firers
191. Shot-firing tools
192. Drilling, charging, stemming and firing of shot-holes
193. Use of ammonium nitrate fuel oil
194. Deep-hole blasting
195. Electric shot-firing
196. Taking shelter before firing shots
197. Precautions against dry coal dust
198. Conditions requiring use of permitted explosives
199. Precautions in the use of permitted explosives
200. Approved shot-firing apparatus
201. Additional precautions in belowground mines
202. Blasting in fire areas in opencast mines
203. Inspections after shot-firing
204. Misfires
205. Special precautions in stone drifts
206. Duties of shot-firer at the end of his shift
207. General precautions regarding explosives
208. Use of certain machinery, equipment and devices in coal mines
209. General provisions for construction and maintenance of machinery
210. Apparatus under pressure
211. Precautions regarding moving parts of machinery
212. Engine rooms and their exits
213. Working and examination of machinery
214. Belowground face equipment, continuous mining and coal cutting machines
215. Cranes and lifting gears
216. Design, operation and maintenance of heavy earth moving machineries (HEMMs) including trucks, tippers and dumpers
217. General precautions
218. Notice of Intention or proposal of exploration for methane Submission of the exploration or abandonment of the exploration report
219. Submission of the exploration or abandonment of the exploration report
220. Notice of commencement of extraction of methane
221. Notice of closure, abandonment or discontinuance of extraction of methane
222. Annual returns
223. Manner of extraction of methane
224. Drill machine
225. Drilling operation
226. Production drilling and extraction of methane from boreholes
227. Ventilation plan for methane exploration or extraction belowground
228. Water and gas separation
229. Welding, cutting or fusion, etc
230. Methane gas transportation belowground
231. Sectionalisation of methane pipe lines
232. Methane and other gas monitoring system in case of positive pressure in reservoir
233. Communication
234. Inspection and examination of machinery and equipment for methane exploration and extraction
235. Responsibility of owner, agents, managers, engineers, competent persons and officials
236. General provisions
237. Fences
238. Notices
239. General safety
240. Use, supply and maintenance of protective footwear
241. Use and supply of helmet
242. Supply of other personal protective equipment
243. Use, supply and maintenance of self-rescuer
244. Obligation of persons provided with personal protective equipment
245. Information about sickness
246. Manpower distribution plan
247. Sirdars and overmen
248. Officials to be literate
249. Writing of reports
250. Payment of fees
251. Place of accident not to be disturbed
252. Emergency response and evacuation plan
253. Taking samples from mine
254. Right of the workers’ representative to inspect register maintained under sub-section (1) of section 48 of Act
255. Chief Inspector or authorized Inspector to exercise powers of Regional Inspector
256. Plans, sections and records
257. Publication of orders and instructions
258. Appeal to the Chief Inspector.
259. Appeal to Committee
260. Repeal and savings