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[接上页] (b) the person responsible for the work under a mining licence or a mining lease shall dwell in the area to which the licence or lease relates or within 8 kilometres thereof. (L.N. 87 of 1986)(2) The manager shall be responsible for- (a) all work done under a prospecting licence, a mining licence or a mining lease; and (b) the enforcement of all regulations governing the use, storage and supply of explosives unless he has, in writing, appointed some competent person to be in charge of a specified area. A copy of the written appointment shall be sent to the Superintendent of Mines.(3) The manager may delegate his responsibility in respect of welfare, health and housing conditions to a person approved by the Superintendent of Mines. (4) The holder of a prospecting or mining licence or the lessee of a mining lease or the agent of any of them who is not managing his own prospecting or mining operations shall without delay notify the Superintendent of Mines in writing of the name of the person appointed so to do. (5) Every manager shall have in his possession a copy of the Mining Ordinance (Cap 285) and of these regulations and of any amendments to either of them. Cap 285B reg 89 Responsibility for working The working of a mine shall be carried on under the control and responsibility of the manager. Cap 285B reg 90 General responsibility Where under these regulations responsibility is not specifically fixed on any particular person it shall attach to the manager. Cap 285B reg 91 Manager's responsibility in relation to dangerous work The manager shall ensure that incompetent or inexperienced workmen are not employed on dangerous work. Cap 285B reg 92 Responsibility of manager for safety and discipline The manager shall be responsible for the safety and proper discipline of the men employed above and below ground. He shall appoint such persons as may be necessary to assist him to carry out any of the provisions of these regulations. Cap 285B reg 93 Duty of manager to comply with orders The manager shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with any order made under section 44(b) of the Ordinance. Cap 285B reg 94 Sanitation The manager of a mine shall be responsible for sanitary conditions underground. Cap 285B reg 95 Duty to enforce provisions regarding storage and supplies of explosives, etc. Every manager shall carry out and enforce all the provisions of these regulations and of any other enactment governing the use, storage and supply of explosives. The manager shall also appoint, in writing, to be officials of a mine such persons as are necessary to assist him to carry out the provisions and in order to ensure the thorough supervision of all operations in or about a mine. Cap 285B reg 96 Duty to ensure adequate supply of materials and appliances (1) Every manager shall ensure that, at all times, a sufficient supply of timber, proper materials and appliances for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of these regulations and ensuring the safety of a mine and the persons employed therein is always provided. (2) Every manager shall specify the manner in which supports are to be set and advanced and the maximum intervals to be observed on roadways between the supports, and at the face- (a) between each row of props; (b) between adjacent props in the same row; (c) between the front row of props and the face; (d) between any holing props or sprags; (e) between chocks. Cap 285B reg 97 Duty to keep plans PART XI PLANS NECESSARY FOR SAFETY (1) The following plans of the property appertaining to the mine to which they relate, on which both true and magnetic meridian shall be shown, shall be kept and brought up to date at least every 6 months- (a) Surface plan on a scale of 1:5000, 1:2000, 1:1000 or 1:500 at the discretion of a mines officer showing- (L.N. 87 of 1986) (i) the boundaries and registered numbers of prospecting licences, mining licences, and mining leases; (ii) the outcrops and dip of the lode or lodes or other mineral or alluvial deposits; (iii) all open surface workings, shafts openings, boreholes, tailing and other dumps; (iv) buildings, watercourses, reservoirs, roads, railways, permanent tramways, electric power lines, public telegraph and telephone lines, cableways, main pipe lines, fences and all surface objects which require protection against undermining.(b) Underground plan on a scale of 1:500, showing- (i) all mine workings whether abandoned or in use. Portions of the mine which have been worked out shall be shown shaded or hatched; (ii) underground dams; (iii) faults, dykes and important changes in the dip of the lode or mineral bed, and where the average dip of the lode or deposit is less than forty-five degrees than the horizontal projection shall also be shown on the plan, and if the average dip is forty-five degrees or more the vertical projection as well shall be included.(c) Ventilation plan indicating the intake airways by blue arrows and the return airways by red arrows, on a scale of 1:2000, showing the system of ventilation in the mine, in particular the general direction of the air currents, the points where the quantity of air is measured and all devices for the regulation and distribution of the air. All ventilation doors, toppings, air crossings, fire dams or seals, and regulators and all telephones and ambulance stations shall be shown in accordance with the symbols approved by the Superintendent of Mines. 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