# The Coal and Other Mines (Safety-Lamps and Lighting) Order 1956, Paragraph 15


(1) No person other than an inspector, a manager, an undermanager, a deputy, a shot firer, a person carrying out an inspection under Part VII of the Act or a person as to whom the manager is satisfied that he is capable of using a re-lighting contrivance safely and who is authorised by the manager in writing so to do, shall take any flame safety-lamp with a self-contained re-lighting contrivance into any mine or part of a mine to which this Part of these regulations applies.
(2) A person having a flame safety-lamp with a self-contained re-lighting contrivance shall at all times while he is below ground retain the key for operating the contrivance in his possession.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1765/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-safety-lamps-and-lighting-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-15
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