Regulation 4 Duty to secure safety of the mine

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), it shall be the duty of the manager of every mine to ensure that such ground control measures are taken as may be necessary for keeping secure every place in a mine where people work or pass.

The duty in paragraph (1) above shall be to ensure security against any reasonably foreseeable risk to the health or safety of any person.

Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require the taking of such ground control measures as are referred to in that paragraph with respect to a part of a mine every entrance to which is for the time being provided, in pursuance of regulation 8 of the Mines (Safety of Exit) Regulations 1988^f1 with such barrier or enclosure as is therein mentioned.