Section 57. Power ol Central Government to make regulations

57. Power ol Central Government to make regulations.— The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make regulations consistent with this Act for all or uny of the following purposes, namely:— (a) for prescribing the qualifications required for appointment as Chief Inspector or Inspector; (b) for prescribing »nd regulating the duties and powers of the Chief Inspeotor and of Inspectors in regard to the inspection of mines under this Act, (o) for prescribing the duties of owners, tigents and managers of mines and of persons acting under them, and for prescribing the qualifications of managers of mines and of persona acting under them ; (d) for requiring facilities to be provided for enabling managers of minos 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 Mid persons acting under them, and the grunting and renewal of certificates of competency; (f) for fixing the foes, if any, to be paid in respect of such examinations and of the grant and renewal of such certificates; (g) for determining ths circumstances in which and the conditions subject to which it shall be lawful for more mines than one to be under a single manager, or for any mine or mines to be under a manager not having the prescribed qualifications; (h) for providing for the making of inquiries into charges of misconduct or iricompetuney on the part of managers of mines and persons acting under them and for the suspension and cancellation of certiflcKtfls of competency ; (0 for regulating, subject to the provisions of the Indian Explosives Act, 1884 (IV of 1884), and of any rules made thoreunder, the storage, conveyance nn,d u.g<j of explosives; THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTTIAOBDINABY [TAUT II (j) for prohibiting, restricting or regulating the employment of women in mines or in any class ot nimrs or on particular kinds of labour whiob are attended by danger to the liJiu, safety or hoalth of BUCJII women and for limiting the weight of any single load that may bo carried by a woman; (7c) for providing for the, safety of the persons employed in a mine, their means of entrance thereinto and exit therefrom, the number of shafts or outlets to be furnished, and the fencing of shafts, pita, outlets, pathways and subsidences; (I) for prohibiting the employment in u mine either as manager or in any other specified capacity of any person except persons paid by the owner of the mine nvid directly answerable to the owner or .manager of the mine; (w) £>• providing for the safety of the roads and working places in mines, including th& siting, maintenance and extraction of pillars and the maintenance of sufficient barriers between mine and mine; (n) for the inspection of workings and scaled ofi fire-areas :n a mint), imd for the restriction of workings under rivers, tanks, water-courses, public roads and buildings and for requiring due precaution to be taken against the onrush of wtiler into, outbreak of fire in or premature collapse of, any workings; (n) for providing for thu ventilation of mines and the action to be taken in respect of dust, fire, and inflammable and noxious gaseR, including precautions against spontaneous combustion, underground fire and coal dust; (p) for providing for the care, and the regulation of the use, of ull machinery and plant and of all electrical appaiatus used for signalling or for othor purpoeos of communication; (q) for providing for the safety of persons present on haulage roads find for restricting the use of r-.ertuin classes of locomotives underground; (r) for providing for proper lighting of mines and regulating the uae of safety lamps therein and for the search of persons entering a mine in which safety lamps are in use; (s) for providing against explosions or ignitions or irruptions of or accumulations of water in mines and against danger arising therefrom and for prohibiting, restricting or retaliating the extraction of minerals in circumstances likrly t.i) result in the premature collapse of or to result in or to aggravate the coljupse of or irruptions of water or ignitions in mines; (t) for prescribing the notices of accidents and dangerous occurrences, and the notices, reports and returns of mineral output, persons employed and other matters provided for by relations, to be furnished by owners, agents and managers of mines, and for prescribing the forms of such notices, returns and reports, the persons and authorities to whom thoy are to be furnished, the ptrticulars to be containod in them, and the time within whioh they are to bo submitted; (u) for prescribing the plans to bo kept by owners, agents and rianaPXira of mines and the manner and places in which such plans are to be kept lor purposes of record find for the submission of copies thereof to theChief Inspector; (v) for regulating the procedure on the occurrence of .accidents or accidental explosions or ignitions in or about mines; (iv) for prescribing the form of, and the particulars to be contained in, the notice to be given by the owner, agent or manager of a mine under section 10; SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF IN"»IA EXTSA»Si>lKABY 178, (x) for prescribing the notice to bo given by tho owner, ugeut or manager of a mine before mining operations are commenced ftfc or extended to any point within h'tLy yards of any railway subject to the provisions of the India,J Eailuayw Adi, 1800 ("IX of 1890),' or of any public work or flluases of publics works which the Central Government may, by general or special order, specify in this behalf; (y) for th? protection from injury, in respect of ariy mine when tho workings are dibi-ontinued, of property vested in the Government or any local authority or railway company as defined in the Indian Eailways Act, 1800 (IX of 1800); (a) for requiring the fenoiug of any mine or part of a mine or any quarry, incline, shaft, pif or outlet, wheLher the same ia boing worked or not, or my dungerour, or prohibited area, subsidence, haulage, tramline or pathway, whero such fencing is necessary foi* the protection of tho public; and (z.z) any other matter which has to be or may be prescribed. 58, Power of Central Government to make rules. —The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules consistent with this Act for nil or any of the following purposes, namely:—• (a) for providing for the appointment of Ohnirman and members of Mining Bonrds, and for regulating the procedure of such Boards; (b) for proscribing the form of the "register referred to in sub-section (3) of section 28; (c) for providing for the appointment of Courts of inquiry under section 24, for regulating the procedure and powers of suoh Courts, for the payment of travelling allowance to the. members, and for the reoovery of the expenses of Hitch Courts from the mauager, owner or ageut of the mine concerned; (d) for requiring the maintenance in mines wherein any women are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months of suitable rooms to be reserved for the use of children under the Age of six years belonging to suoh women, and for prescribing, either generally or with particular reference to the number of women employed in the minra, the number ani standards of suoh rooms, and «the nature and extent of the amenities to be provided and the supervision to be exercised therein; (ft) frv requiring the maintenance at or nenr pit-heads of bathing plftces equipped with shower baths nnd of locker-rooms for the use of men employed in mines and of similar and Reparato places and rooms for tha use of women in minus where women are employed, nnd for prescribing, either generally or with particular reference to the numbers of men ind women ordinarily employed in a. mine, the number and standards of such places and rooms; | • " ~~' (f) for prescribing the standr.rd of sanitation to be maintained and the fictile of latvine and urinnl. accommodation to be provided at mines, the provision to be mndo for the supply of drinking-wnter, the supnly and maintenance of medicn[1] appliances nnd comforts, and the training of men in ambulance work; (g) for prohibiting the possosRinn or consumption .of into>ric;it>ing driuks or drugs in a mine arid the entry or presence therojn of any person in a drunken state; •(h) for prescribing the forms of notices required under section flQ, and for requiring such notices to be posted also in specified languages; THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [2urn II (i) for defining the persons who ahull, for the purpose of seotion 87,1 be deemed to be persons holding positions of supervision or management or omploydd in a confidential capacity; (/) for prohibiting tho employment in mines of persons or any class of persons who have not been certified by a qualified modicd practitioner to have completed their fifteenth year, and for prescribing the manner and the circumstances in which such certificates may be granted and revoked; (fc) for prescribing the form of the certificate of fitness requirad by section 40, the conditions subject to which and the circumstances in which they ma[1] / bo granted and tho circumstances in "which they may be revoked; (I) for prescribii.'g the form of registers required by section 48; (m) for prescribing nbstracts of this Act and of the regulations aud rules and the language in which the abstracts and bye-laws shall be posted aa required by sections Cl and 62; (n) for requiring notices, returns and reports in connection with any matters dealt with by rules to be furnished by owners, agents and managers of mines, and for prescribing tho 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 times, within which they are to be submitted; (o) for requiring the provision and maintenance in mines, wherein more than one hundred and fifty persons are ordinarily employed, of tidequato and auitab'e shelters for taking food with provision for drinking water; (p) for requiring the provision and maintenance in any mine specified in this behalf by the Chief Inspector or Inspector, wherein more than two hundred and fifty persons are ordinarily employed of a canteen or canteens for the use of such persons; (q) for requiring the employment in every mine wherein five hundred or more persons nre ordinarily employed, of such number of. welfare officers as m;iy be speoified find for prescribing the qualifications and the terms and conditions of, rmd the duties to bo performed by, such welfare officers; (r) for requiring the establishment of central rescue stations for groups of specified mines or for all mines in a specifiod area, and prescribing how and by whom s-uch stations shall be established; (») for providing for the management of central rescue stations, and regulating the constitution, powers and functions of, and the conduct of business by, tho authorities (which shall include representatives of the owners and manngers of, and of the miners employed in, the mines or groups of mines concerned) charged with such management; (t) for rrescvibing the position, equipment, control, maintenance and functions of oentral rescue stations; (u) for providing for the levy and collection of a duty of excise (at a rtvte not exceeding TAY pies per ton) on coke and ooul produced In and despatched from mino-3 specified under clause (r) in any group or included under clnuse (r) b\ any speoified area, the utilisation of the proceeds thereof for the creation of n central rescue station fund for such group or area and the administration of such funds; (v) for providing for the formation, training, composition and duties of rescue brigades; and generally for the conduct of rescue work in inir.es; and| SEC. 11 THE GAZETTE OF M>IA EXTEAOfilttNABY (w) generally to to provide for any matter not provided lor by this Act or the regulations, provision for which is required m order to give effect to this. Act.