Metalliferous Mines Regulations, 1961 - Directorate General of ...

Regional Inspector such work is likely to endanger the stability of the workings, he may, by an order in
writing, require the completion, before commencing such drivage or enlargement, of such protective works
as he may specify therein.
(5) Proper provision shall be made to prevent the premature collapse of workings; and adequate steps shall
be taken to isolate, control or remedy any such collapse which may occur.
108. Powers of Inspectors – If in any mine or part thereof, it appears to the Re gional Inspector that the
provisions of regulations 106 and 107 or of any order issued under any of these regulations have not been
complied with, he may give notice in writing to the owner, agent or manager requiring him to take such
protective measures, within such time as he may specify in the notice. In case of non-compliance with the
requirements of the notice, the Regional Inspector may, by an order in writing, prohibit until the
requirements specified in the notice are complied with to his satisfaction, the employment of any person
other than those required for complying with the said requirements, in the part or parts of the mine in which
protective measures are required to be taken.
1[108A. Pointing out contraventions during inspections – (1) If the Chief Inspector or an Inspector, during
his inspection of any mine, finds or comes to know of any contravention of any provisions of Act or the
regulations, rules, bylaws of orders made thereunder, he shall enter such contravention in an inter leafed
paged and bound register kept for the purpose at the mine, in Form VI and shall also point out such
contravention to the owner, agent or manager, it present on the spot. The Chief Inspector or the Inspector
making the entry in the Register aforesaid shall duly sign such entries with date, and take a carbon copy of
the entries for his record:
Provided that the Chief Inspector or the Inspector need not enter such contraventions which require
confirmation after a survey or other further examination and he may subsequently intimate the owner, agent
or manager, specifying the contraventions, if confirmed, and also any other contraventions which were, by
inadvertence, not entered in the register aforesaid.
(2)The owner agent or manager shall check the aforesaid register once every day and countersign each
entry therein. He shall et copies of such entries made out within three days of the ate of entry and display
one such copy on the notice board of the mine for a period of at least fifteen days. When so required, the
owner, agent or manager shall also supply copies of the entries to the registered trade unions of workers in
the mine and to the State Government concerned.
(3) The owner, agent or manager of the mine shall return one copy, within a period not exceeding fifteen
days from the date of the entry, to the Chief Inspector or the Inspector who made the entry with remarks
thereon showing the action taken to remedy the contravention and the date on which such action was taken.
109. Workings under railways and roads, etc. – (1) No workings shall be made and no work of extraction or
reduction of pillars shall be conducted at, or extended to, any point within 45 metres of any railway, or of
any public works in respect of which this regulation is applicable by reason of any general or special order
of the Central Government, or of any public road or building, or of other permanent structure not belonging
to the owner of the mine, without the prior permission in writing of the Chief Inspector and subject to such
conditions as he may specify therein.
(2) Every application for permission under sub-regulation (1) shall specify the position of the workings of
the mine in relation to the railway or public road or works or building or structure concerned, the manner in
which it is proposed to carry out the intended operations, and the limits to which it is proposed to carry out
the said operations; and shall be accompanied by two copies of a plan showing the existing and the
intended mining operations in so far as they affect the railway or public road or works or building or
structure concerned. A copy of the application shall also be sent in the case of a railway, to the railway