16—(1) The manager of every mine shall, where there are suitable employees at the mine to act as rescue team members, select an appropriate number of them to so act and shall ensure that they are properly trained as rescue team members and are available to act in that capacity.
(2) No person, whether an employee at a mine or otherwise, shall serve as a rescue team member unless he is suitably qualified and experienced and he has, within the last preceding twelve months,
(a)been certified, by a suitably qualified and registered medical practitioner, after thorough examination to be fit to undertake rescue work using breathing apparatus; and
(b)attended a suitable course of initial or further training and practice in rescue work and he has been certified, by the person in charge of the course, to be proficient and to be able to undertake rescue work with breathing apparatus.