PART VIMISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Transmission of plans etc relating to tips ceasing to be associated with a mine or quarry
24. In the event of the abandonment of a mine or quarry, the owner of the mine or quarry shall within three months thereafter send to the inspector for the district—
(a)all such plans, drawings and sections relating to tips associated with the mine or quarry as were required to be kept by virtue of section 6 of the 1969 Act;
(b)all such other plans relating to tips associated with the mine or quarry as were required to be kept under these regulations;
(c)all such reports or records relating to tips associated with the mine or quarry as were required to be kept by virtue of regulations 13, 14(b) and 20.
25. Before an owner of a mine or quarry with which is associated a tip to which Part I of the 1969 Act applies parts with the exclusive occupation of the whole of the premises on which the tip is situated, he shall send to the inspector for the district all such plans, drawings, sections, reports and records relating to the tip as are referred to in regulation 24 or an accurate copy thereof.
Directions
26.—(1) An inspector may at any time not already provided for in these regulations by notice served on the person having responsibility for a tip which is not a classified tip for the purpose of ensuring the security of the tip direct that the tip shall be treated for the purposes of all or any of these regulations as a classified tip and any such notice shall, if it is so specified therein, become operative forthwith.
(2) The provisions of Part XV of the 1954 Act with respect to references upon notices served by inspectors shall apply to a notice served by an inspector under the last preceding paragraph, and the relevant ground of objection shall be that compliance with the notice is wholly, or to a particular extent, unnecessary for the purpose of ensuring the security of the tip.
Conduct of employees
27.—(1) Without prejudice to the generality of section 3(3) of the 1954 Act, every person employed at a tip to which Part I of the 1969 Act applies shall obey any instruction given to him by any person upon whom duties are laid by these regulations, being an instruction given by that person for the purpose of the performance of those duties.
(2) No person so employed shall impede or obstruct any other person in the performance of such duties.
(3) Regulation 2(1) of the Coal and Other Mines (General Duties and Conduct) Regulations 1956(1) shall not apply to any such instruction and regulation 2(2) of those regulations shall not apply to such duties.
Application of other regulations
28. Any reference in any other regulations to the 1954 Act shall, except where the context otherwise requires, include a reference to Part I of the 1969 Act where such a reference is appropriate for the purpose of ensuring the security of tips to which the said Part I applies.
Revocation
29. The Mines and Quarries (Notification of Tipping Operations) Regulations 1969(2) are hereby revoked.
(1956 I, p. 1256).
(1969 II, p. 3401).