The Coal and Other Mines (Locomotives) Order 1956

26.—(1) No person shall replenish any diesel locomotive with fuel oil in any mine except at a place appointed for that purpose by the manager (in these regulations referred to as a “filling station”).

(2) The manager shall ensure that every filling station—

(a) is provided with not less than two means of egress;

(b) is ventilated by a current of air sufficient to dilute and render harmless all gases emitted therein;

(c) is constructed of non-inflammable material;

(d) has a floor of smooth concrete surrounded by a sill;

(e) is provided with suitable and sufficient apparatus for combating outbreaks of fire; and

(f) is so equipped that the spilling of oil is minimised.

(3) Any person spilling oil in a filling station shall—

(a) forthwith wipe it up or cause it to be wiped up with a non-inflammable absorbent;

(b) forthwith thereafter deposit that absorbent, or cause it to be deposited, in a fireproof receptacle; and

(c) as soon as practicable take that absorbent, or cause it to be taken, to the surface.

(4) No person shall take any oil from any container in a filling station while any internal combustion engine in the filling station is running.

(5) In a mine or part of a mine which is not a safety-lamp mine or safety-lamp part of a mine, no person shall, in, or within ten yards of, any filling station, smoke or use any lamp or light other than a locked safety-lamp or an electric lamp adequately protected:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to any filling station constructed before the first day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, in any mine of stratified ironstone or of shale for any diesel locomotive which was in use before that date or was required to be delivered under a contract made before that date.