New South Wales Repealed Regulations New South Wales Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) The production districts provided for in a mine inspection system must be all the areas in the mine within which there is a place, or places, where coal or stone is mined (other than places at which coal or stone is mined for repairing or enlarging roadways).
(2) Subject to subclauses (3) and (4), a production district must, at least, include all places within 100 metres of a place where mining occurs and in the same ventilation split as that place.
(3) The start of a production district must not be in a hazardous zone.
(4) In determining the extent of a production district, the ability of the mining official in charge of it to effectively carry out required inspections and oversee the safety and health of persons in it must be taken into account.
(5) A mine inspection system may provide that a place that would otherwise be a production district may be treated as not being a production district during any period of not less than one shift when coal or stone is not intended to be mined in it.
(6) The start of a production district in a roadway through which people normally travel must be clearly and durably marked to the effect that it is the start of the district.