Section 172(1) The regulations may exempt, or provide for the exemption of, persons, or persons of a prescribed class, or any act, matter or thing, or any prescribed class of act, matter or thing, either absolutely or subject to conditions, from any provision of the regulations.(2) The regulations may exempt an operator, or a class of operators, from the requirement to prepare a mine safety management plan and from requirements relating to that plan under Subdivision 2 of Division 2 of Part 5.
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