Mines and Quarries Act, 1965

Blasting materials and devices.

66.—(1) Regulations may provide for prohibiting or restricting the supply, storage or use at mines, of blasting materials and devices or any class thereof and, in particular, for prohibiting or restricting the use of such materials and devices or any class thereof in a part of a mine below ground at any time at which the amount of inflammable gas in the general body of the air in that part exceeds the prescribed percentage by volume and in such other circumstances as may be prescribed.

(2) No blasting material or device shall be taken or used below ground in a mine other than material or a device provided by the owner of the mine.

(3) In this section “blasting materials and devices” means explosives and any articles designed for the purpose of breaking up or loosening minerals by means of explosion, the expansion of gas, the change of a substance from one physical state to another or a chemical reaction not constituting combustion.

Fire Precautions