{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-explosives-regulations-1988/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-explosives-regulations-1988/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1930",
  "legislation_title": "The Quarries (Explosives) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-explosives-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Appointment of shotfirers and trainee shotfirers",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of enabling shotfiring operations to be carried out at a quarry, the manager shall appoint shotfirers and trainee shotfirers.\n(2) The manager shall take all reasonable steps to—\n(a) satisfy himself that any person he appoints to be a shotfirer has attained the age of 21 years and has such training, knowledge and experience as are appropriate to ensure that he is competent to fire shots safely; and\n(b) ensure that a trainee shotfirer at the quarry does not fire shots and is not required to fire shots—\n(i) until the manager is satisfied that he has completed a suitable period of training and appropriate practical experience; and\n(ii) except when he is under the close personal supervision of a shotfirer.\n(3) A person at a quarry shall not fire shots unless he is a shotfirer or trainee shotfirer, or was, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, a shotfirer at that quarry within the meaning of regulation 5 of the Quarries (Explosives) Regulations 1959.\n(4) The manager shall ensure that a record of the appointment at a quarry of any shotfirer or trainee shotfirer is kept at the office of the quarry until one year after that shotfirer’s or, as the case may be, trainee shotfirer’s employment at the quarry ends.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1959/2259."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1930/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:25.047948+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}