Power of Central Government to make regulations in relation to mines and dock work
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.... for specifying the duties of owners, agents and managers of mines and of persons acting under them, and for specifying the qualifications (including age) of agents and managers of mines and of persons acting under them; (d) for requiring facilities to be provided for enabling managers of mines and other persons acting under them to efficiently discharge their duties; (e) for regulating the manner of ascertaining, by examination or otherwise, the qualifications of managers of mines and persons acting under them, and the granting and renewal of certificates of competency; (f) for fixing the fees, if any, to be paid in respect of such examinations and of the grant and renewal of such certificates; (g) for d....
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...., pathways and subsidences; (l) for prohibiting the employment in a mine either as manager or in any other specified capacity of any person except persons paid by the owner of the mine and directly answerable to the owner or manager of the mine; (m) for providing for the safety of the roads and working places in mines, including the siting, maintenance and extraction or reduction of pillars or blocks of minerals and the maintenance of sufficient barriers between mine and mine; (n) for the inspection of workings and sealed off fire-areas in a mine, and for the restriction of workings in the vicinity of the sea or any lake or river or any other body of surface water, whether natural or artificial, or of any public r....
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....lt in the premature collapse of workings or to result in or to aggravate the collapse of workings or irruptions of water or ignitions in mines; (t) for specifying type of accidents for the purposes of notice under section 10 and for specifying the notices of accidents and dangerous occurrences, and the notices, reports and returns of mineral output, persons employed and other matters provided for by regulations, to be furnished by owners, agents and managers of mines, and for specifying the forms of such notices, returns and reports, the persons and authorities to whom they are to be furnished, the particulars to be contained in them, and the time within which they are to be submitted; (u) for requiring owners, agents and ....
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....railway company as defined in the Indian Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989); (z) for requiring protective works to be constructed by the owner, agent or manager of a mine before the mine is closed, and in the event of non-compliance, for getting such works executed by any other agency and for recovering the expenses thereof from such owner in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue; (za) for requiring the fencing of any mine or part of a mine or any quarry, incline, shaft, pit or outlet, whether the same is being worked or not, or any dangerous or prohibited area, subsidence, haulage, tramline or pathway, where such fencing is necessary for the protection of the public; (zb) for specifying the number of official....
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....nd projects; (zn) for the efficient lighting of all areas of dock, ship, any other vessel, dock structure or working places where any dock work is carried on and of all approaches to such places to which dock workers are required to go in the course of their employment; (zo) providing and maintaining adequate ventilation and suitable temperature in every building or an enclosure on ship where dock workers are employed; (zp) providing for the fire and explosion prevention and protection; (zq) providing for safe means of access to ships, holds, stagings, equipment, lifting appliances and other working places; (zr) providing for the safety of workers engaged in the opening and closing of hatches, pr....
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....roviding for the handling of dangerous substances and working in dangerous or harmful environments and the precautions to be taken in connection with such handling; (zzc) providing for the work in connection with cleaning, chipping, painting, operations and precautions to be taken in connection with such work; (zzd) providing for the employment of persons for handling cargo, handling appliances, power operated hatch covers or other power operated ship's equipment, such as, door in the hull of a ship, ramp, retraceable car deck or similar equipment or to give signals to the drivers of such machinery; (zze) providing for the transport of dock workers; (zzf) providing for the precautions to be taken to p....
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