Section 20. Conservancy

(3) In every rniue vrherein more thai) five bundled persons are employed, there shall be provided and maintained such ornbu'ances an:l stretchers as may be prescribed and an ambulance room of the prescribed size containing the prescribed equipment aud hi the charge of such medical and nursing staff as may be prescribed. 22, Powers of Inspectors when causes of danger not expressly providrd — against exist or when employment of persons is dangerous. (1) If in respect of any matter for which no express provision is made in this Act, or in the regulations, rules or bye-laws or in any orders made thereunder it appears to the Chief Inspector or the Inspector that any mine, or any part thereof or any matter, thing or practice in or connected with the mine, or with the control, management or direction thereof, is dangerous to human life or safety, or defective so as to threaten, or tend to, the bodily injury of any person, he may give notice in writing thereof +o the owner, agent or manager of the mine, an-1 shall state in the notice the particulars in which he considers the mine, or part thereof, or Lhe matter, thing or practice, to be dangerous or defective and require the same to be remedied within such time as he may specify in the notice. (7) Every requisition made uudi-r sub-secfon (1), or order made under aub^ section (3), or aub-seciion (J) to which objection is mode under sub-section (6), shall be complied with pending the receipt at the mine of the decision of the Committee: Provided that the Committee uiLiy, on the application of the owfl°r, agent or niina^r, suspend the operation of a requis'tion under sub section (7), ponding its decision on the. objection. (S) Nothing in ibis feed Ion shall affect' the powers of a magistrate under section LM of the Cod.' ,1 Crimiiml Procedure, 1&M (Act Y of W)B). (6) If the owner, agent or manager of the mine objects to a requisition made under sub-section (1) or to an order made by the Chief Inspector under subsection (3), or sub-section (4), he may, within twenty days after the receipt of the notice containing the requisition or of the order or after the date of the decision of the appeal, a« the case may be, send his objection in writing stating the grounds thereof, to the Central Government which shall refer the game to a Committee. lte THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTEA0BD1NAHT (PART Jl 20. Conservancy.—, 1) There shall be prov[:] dcd, separately for males and females in every mine, a sivtfieient numler <~>f latrines and urinals of prescribed types so sitii:[1+] ed as to hv convenient and accessible to persons employed in the mine at all times. (?) All latrines and urinals provided under sub-section (2) s-hall be adequately lighted, ventilated and at fill times maintained in o clean and sanitary condition. (•3) The Central Government may specify the number of latrines and urinals to be provided in any mine, in proportion to the number of males and females employed in the mine and provide for such other matters in respect of sanitation in mines (including the obMgations in this regard of persons employed in the mine) as it may consider necessary in the interests of the heilth of the persons so employed. 21. Medical appliances. —(2) In every mine, both above and below ground, there shall be provided and maintained so as to be readily accessible during all working hours first-aid boxes or cupboards equipped with the prescribed contents, and the number of snA boxes or cupboards ^hnll not be less than one for every one hundred and fiftj persons employed in the mine. (2) Nothing except the prescribed contents shall be kept in the boxes and cupboards referred to in sub-section (2) nnd all such boxes and cupboards shall be kept in the charge of any person employed in the mine who is trained in SEC. J] THE GAZETTE OP INDIA EXTEAOEDINARY 163 such first-aid treatment as may be presoribai and who shall always be available during the working hours of the mine. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions contained in subsection (1), the Chief Inspector or the Inspector may, by order in writing addressed to the owner, agent or manager of a mine, prohibit the extraction or reduction of pillars in any part of the mine if, in his opinion, such operation is likely to en use the crushing of pillars or the premature collapse of any port of the work'ngs or otherwise endanger the mine, or if. in his opinion, adequate provision against the outbreak of fire has not been male by providing for the sealing off and isolation of the part of the mine in which such operation is contemplated and far restricting the area that might be affected by a fire, and the provisions of sub-sections (4), (-5), (6) and (7), shall npply to an order made under this sub-sectloi: as they apply to an order made under subsect io a (J). (3) If the ChL'f Iijspt-cto' or an Inspector authorised in this behalf by general or special order in writing by the Chief Inspector is of opinion that there is urgent and immediate dagger to the life or safety of any person employed vu any mine or '/•art tlvciTot, Iv m°y, by a'"[1] , order in writing containing a statement of the j_nund-- of his opinion, prohibit, until the danger is removed, 1he employment in or about the mine or any pnrt thereof of any person whose emplrym^nt is not 'n his opinion reasonably necessary for the purpose of removing the danger. (4) Where an order ha? been made under sub-section (3) by an Inspector, the owner, agent or manager of the mine may, within ten days after the receipt of the order, appeal against the same to the Chief Inspector who may confirm, modify or cancel the order. (5) The Chief Inspector or the Inspector making a requisition under subsection (1) or an order under sub-section (3), and the Chief Inspector making an order (other than an order of cancellation) in appeal under sub-section (4) shall forthwith report the same to the Central Government.