Section 2
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires -
"authorised officer" means the Chief Quarry Inspector, any Quarry Inspector or
Quarry Assistant;
"Chief Quarry Inspector" means such person as the Minister may, by notice in the
Gazette, appoint to be the Chief Quarry Inspector for the purposes of these rules;
"explosive" means any substance used with a view to producing a practical effect by explosion and includes gunpowder, dynamite, gelignite, fulminate of mercury, nitro-glycerine, safety fuse, detonators, detonating cord or any other initiating devices;
"Government" means the State Government of Sabah;
"historical object" means any artefact or other object to which religious, traditional, artistic or historic interest is attached and includes any –
(a)
etnographic material, such as a house-hold implement, decoration article, personal ornament;
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(b)
work of art, such as a carving, sculpture, painting, architecture, textile, musical instrument, weapon and any other handicraft;
(c)
manuscript, coin, currency note, medal, badge, insignia, coat of arms, crest, flag, arms and armour; and
(d)
vehicle, ship and boat, in part or in whole, whose production has ceased;
"licence" means a licence issued under section 23 of the Ordinance;
"licensee" means any person issued with a licence;
"machinery" means engines, earthmoving machines, compressors, drilling equipment, conveyor belts, crushers, grinders and all other appliances of whatsoever kind used in quarry;
"manager" means the person for the time being recorded in the office of the Chief
Quarry Inspector as the quarry manager under rule 7(3) or deemed to be one under rule 7(6);
"monument" means any building, earthwork, standing stone, keramat, cave or other structure, erection or excavation, and any tomb, tumulus or other place of interment or any other immovable property of a like nature or any part or remains of the same, the preservation of which is a matter of public interest by reason of the religious, historic, traditional or archaeological interest, attaching thereto;
"Ordinance" means the Land Ordinance (Cap. 68);
"quarry" when used as a noun, means any open or underground excavation, made for extracting and removing rock material from any land and includes crushing or other treatment works on the site or elsewhere in the State;
"quarry" when used as a verb, means to break or excavate ground for the purpose of extracting and removing rock material from any land and includes the processes of crushing, grinding, dressing or other treatment of such material on the site or elsewhere in the State;
"Quarry Assistant" means any officer for the time being authorised by the Chief
Quarry Inspector to assist the Quarry Inspector in exercising supervision and control of quarries;
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"Quarry Inspector" means an officer appointed under rule 22(b);
"rock material" means any earth, gravel, stones, coral, shell, guano, sand, loam or clay or any bricks, lime, cement or other commodities manufactured from the materials aforesaid.