# The Coal and Other Safety-Lamp Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1993, Regulation 33: Additional duties of shotfirers


(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a shotfirer shall ensure that all shotholes charged and all primed cartridges held by him or by other persons acting under his supervision are fired before the end of his period of duty.
(2) Where a shotfirer is prevented by reasons beyond his control from complying with paragraph (1), regulation 17(2)(b), regulation 31(1) or regulation 32(1), that shotfirer shall report the matter either to the person under whose direction he is working or to a person senior to that person, who shall either carry out the relevant duty himself or require it to be carried out by another shotfirer, in which case that other shotfirer shall be obliged to comply with the duty concerned.
(3) Where a trainee shotfirer is prevented by reasons beyond his control from complying with regulation 17(2)(b), the duty imposed upon him by that provision shall be carried out by the shotfirer under whose close personal supervision he is working.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/208/regulation/33 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-safety-lamp-mines-explosives-regulations-1993/regulation-33
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