General

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CHAPTER I

GENERAL

REGULATION 1. DEFINITIONS

1.

In this Code the following terms have the meanings hereby

assigned to them:

(a) the term " national laws or regulations " includes laws and

regulations, orders and decrees having the force of law issued

by a competent authority;

(b) the term " competent authority " means a Minister, Govern-

ment department, or other public authority having powers

to issue regulations, orders, decrees, or other instructions

having the force of law in respect of safety in coal mines;

(c) the term " mine " includes all underground excavations with

shafts or other entrances, slopes, levels, drifts, and other

roadways and workings for the extraction of coal, with winding

(hoisting), haulage, ventilating and other equipment on the

mine premises for generating and transmitting energy used

underground, and every shaft in the course of being sunk,

and every incline or level in the course of being driven from

the surface.

A mine is to be considered as a distinct mine if it has

a separate system of ventilation and is operated as a unit:

Provided that two or more adjoining mines, which have

. separate systems of ventilation but are worked by the same

operator under one general management, may be considered

as one mine by the competent authority for the purposes of

certain provisions of this Code, in particular those contained

in Chapters XIX-XXIII;

(d) the term " mine operator " means any person or body corporate

who is the immediate proprietor or lessee, concessionaire,

or occupier of any mine or of any part

thereof,

including

his agent;

(e) the term " manager " means a duly qualified and appointed

person legally responsible for the management and technical

direction of the mine, whether he is the mine operator or a

person appointed by him;