New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

COAL MINES (UNDERGROUND) REGULATION 1999 - REG 34

34 Notification of dangerous occurrences

(1) For the purposes of Divisions 5 and 6 of Part 4 of the Act, the following occurrences are specified under section 85 of the Act as being dangerous occurrences:

(a) an unplanned ignition of gas or dust underground,

(b) an outbreak of fire or spontaneous heating of coal or other material underground or initial spontaneous heating in a coal stockpile on the surface,

(c) a failure of ventilation that results in an accumulation of gas that requires the withdrawal of persons,

(d) an inrush within the meaning of Division 8,

(e) a coal or rock outburst that endangers a person or disrupts mine ventilation or impedes passage,

(f) damage to or a failure in haulage equipment used to transport persons in a shaft or drift that may endanger any person, interfere with the normal working of a mine or disrupt access to a second means of egress from a mine,

(h) an unplanned ignition or explosion of a blasting agent or an explosive underground,

(i) a sudden pillar collapse,

(j) the entombment of a person.