(10B) “flame proof apparatus” means an apparatus that can withstand without injury any

explosion of the inflammable gas that may occur within it and can prevent the transmission of
flame such as will ignite the inflammable gas which may be present in the surrounding
atmosphere;

(11)“Form” means a Form as set out in the First Schedule;

(12)“gas” includes fume or vapour;

(12A) “gassy seam of the first degree” means a coal seam or part thereof lying within the
precincts of a mine not being an open cast working whether or not inflammable gas is actually
detected in the general body of the air at any place in its workings below ground, or when the
percentage of the inflammable gas if and when detected, in such general body of air does not
exceed 0.1 and the rate of emission of such gas does not exceed one cubic metre per tonne
of coal produced;

(12B) “gassy seams of the second degree” means coal seams or part thereof lying within the
precincts of a mine not being an open cast working in which the percentage of inflammable
gas in the general body of air at any place in the workings of the seam is more than 0.1 or the
rate of emission of inflammable gas per tonne of coal produced exceeds one cubic metre but
does not exceed ten cubic metres;

(12C) “gassy seams of the third degree” means of coal seam or part thereof lying within the
precincts of a mine not being an open cast workings in which the rate of emission of
inflammable gas per tonne of coal produced exceeds ten cubic metres;

(12D) “general body of air” means the general atmosphere in a seam and includes the
atmosphere in the roof cavities, but does not include general atmosphere in the sealed off
area or in any borehole drilled in coal or in the adjacent “strata”;

(13)“Goaf” means any part of workings below ground wherefrom a pillar or part thereof, or in
the case of “longwall” workings, coal has been extracted but which is not a working place;

(14) “Incline” means an inclined passage or road either on the surface or below ground;

(15)“Inset” means a landing or platform in a shaft, and includes an excavation therefrom

between the top and the bottom of the shaft;

(16)“machinery” means –

(i) any locomotive or any stationary or portable engine, air compressor, boiler or
steam apparatus, which is, or
(ii) any such apparatus, appliance or combination of appliances intended for
developing, storing, transmitting, converting or utilising energy, which is, or
(iii) any such apparatus, appliance or combination of appliances if any power
developed, stored, transmitted, converted or utilised thereby is, used or intended
for use in connection with mining operations;

(17)“material” includes coal, stone, debris, or any other material;

(18) “misfire” means the failure to explode of an entire charge of explosives in a shothole;

(19) “month” means a calendar month;

(20)“Official” means a person appointed in writing by the owner, agent or manager to perform
duties or supervision in a mine or part thereof and includes an under manager or
assistant manager, a ventilation officer, a safety officer, a sampling incharge, dust
incharge, an overman, a sirdar, an engineer and a surveyor;