Rule 123. Establishment and location of rescue station

(1) The Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator may permit or require the employer of a below ground mine or a group of below ground mines to establish and maintain rescue stations with such designs and specifications and at such places as may be considered necessary in consultation with the employer:

Provided that where there are below ground mines belonging to more than one employer, the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator may permit or require two or more employers to jointly establish common rescue stations:

Provided further that all the existing rescue stations as on the date of coming into force of these rule, shall continue to function for a period of three years from that date.

(2) At every rescue station, there shall be a superintendent and at least two instructors and there shall be maintained a rescue brigade of not less than eighteen rescue trained persons.

(3) Where in absence of the superintendent at a rescue station exceeds sixty days, the employer shall appoint another superintendent.

(4) The employer shall, on the same day of assumption or relinquishment of charge by the superintendent, inform the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator and the Inspector-cum-Facilitator of the region where the mine is situated.