Mines and Quarries Act 1954

Provisions ancillary to foregoing Sections

15Notification to district inspector of appointments by mine owners

Forthwith after the appointment by the owner of a mine of a person to be the manager or an under-manager of the mine, to exercise the powers and perform the duties of manager of the mine during a vacancy in the office, to perform the duties of under-manager of the mine in the event of a sole or last surviving under-manager ceasing to hold office, to exercise daily personal supervision during a period during which the manager or an under-manager is absent or unable to exercise such supervision, or to be the surveyor for the mine, the owner shall give to the inspector for the district notice, in such form as may be specified by the Minister, of the making of the appointment and of the name and address of the person appointed and giving such particulars with respect to his qualifications as may be so specified.

16Disqualification of contractors and their employees for appointment as managers, and c, of mines

(1)Where a mine or any part thereof is worked, or any operations in a mine are carried on, by a contractor, and a person is by or by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this Act required to hold qualifications for appointment to any office in the mine mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, neither the contractor nor a person employed by him shall be capable of being appointed to that office notwithstanding that, apart from this section, he is qualified for appointment thereto.

(2)The offices referred to in the foregoing subsection are those of manager of the mine, under-manager thereof and the office to which duties imposed by virtue of subsection (1) of section twelve of this Act are attached.