Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “borehole site” means a place at which a borehole operation—

  1. (a)

     is being or is to be undertaken; or

  2. (b)

     has been undertaken, save where an borehole operations have ceased and all boreholes have been abandoned;

• “competent” in relation to a person means competent by way of sufficient training and experience or knowledge and other qualities properly to perform or assist in performing the work which that person is required to do;

• “the Department” means the Department of Economic Development;

• “health and safety document” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 7;

• “mining” does not include open cast mining;

• “mining area” means land—

  1. (a)

     within one kilometre, in a horizontal or other direction, of the workings in a mine (whether disused or not); or

  2. (b)

     in relation to which a licence to mine for minerals has been granted;

• “operator”, in relation to a borehole site, means—

  1. (a)

     a person appointed by the owner in writing to exercise for the time being the function of organising or supervising borehole operations at the site, where that function involves the exercise of overall control of the borehole site; or

  2. (b)

     where for the time being there is no such person, the owner;

• “owner”, in relation to a borehole site, means the person who has the right to undertake the borehole operations which are being or are to be undertaken at the site; and

• “well” includes any borehole associated with that well.

Any reference in these Regulations to a borehole operation is a reference to an activity or operation in the course or furtherance of, or in connection with the cessation of—

or to the preparation for sale, but not the processing, of extracted minerals at the place of any such activity or operation.