Mines and Quarries Act 1954

101 Rights of quarry manager with respect to instructions given by or on behalf of owner

(1) Any instructions given to a manager of a quarry by or on behalf of the owner thereof, being instructions affecting the fulfilment, in relation to the quarry, by the manager of statutory responsibilities of his shall, so far as they are not written, be confirmed in writing by the person by whom they were, given forthwith after the making of a request in that behalf by that manager.

(2) Except in a case of emergency, neither the owner of a quarry nor a person acting on his behalf shall, except with the consent of a manager of the quarry, give, otherwise than through that manager, to a person employed at the quarry who is responsible to that manager, any instructions affecting the discharge of that person's duties in relation to a matter over which the management and control vested in that manager by section ninety-nine of this Act extends; and where the owner of a quarry or a person acting on his behalf gives, in either of the said excepted cases, instructions which, apart from the exception, would be required to be given through a manager of the quarry, the person who gave the instructions shall, forthwith after he has given them, inform the manager through whom, apart from the exception, the instructions would have been required to be given of the substance thereof and, if requested so to do by him, confirm them in writing forthwith after the making of the request.

The foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any instructions given to a person responsible to a manager of a quarry by a person who is himself responsible to that manager for those instructions.