| (1) | Mining operations, as referred to in paragraph 22 of Part B of Annexure B, must be conducted at a reduced capacity of not more than 50% during the period of lockdown, and thereafter at increasing capacity as determined by direction issued by the Cabinet member responsible for mineral resources and energy. |
| (2) | The following conditions apply to the starting and increasing of capacity: |
| (a) | A rigorous screening and testing program must be implemented as employees return to work; |
| (b) | the mining industry must provide quarantine facilities for employees who have tested positive for the COVID-19; |
| (c) | data collected during the screening and testing programme must be submitted to the relevant authority; |
| (d) | mining companies must make arrangements to transport their South African employees from their homes to their respective areas of operations; |
| (e) | workers from neighbouring Southern African Development Community countries must be recalled to their place of employment at the end of lockdown in their respective countries in accordance with these Regulations and regulations applicable in those countries. |
| (3) | The monitoring and impact assessment of seismicity through the Council for Geoscience must be intensified with immediate effect. |
[Regulation 11K inserted by section 13 of Notice No. R. 465, GG43232, dated 16 April 2020]
