The Coal and Other Mines (Locomotives) Order 1956

Places for determinations

13.—(1) Determinations of the firedamp content shall be made—

(a) at a point at each end of every length of road in which any locomotive runs;

(b) at such other suitable points as may be fixed by the manager:

Provided that paragraph (a) shall not require any determination to be made in a length of intake airway which begins at a shaft or outlet at any place more than nine hundred feet from any working face ventilated by that airway.

(2) An inspector may, if he is of opinion that any point fixed in pursuance of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) of this regulation is unsuitable, serve on the manager a notice requiring him to fix some other point in substitution therefor and may serve on the manager a notice requiring determinations to be made at any other point specified in the notice in addition to those required by the preceding paragraph.