{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-general-duties-and-conduct-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-general-duties-and-conduct-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1761",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal and Other Mines (General Duties and Conduct) Order 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-general-duties-and-conduct-order-1956",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Every person engaged at any working face (including a place in a road at which ripping or work of repair is in progress) or in setting or withdrawing supports shall make a careful examination of his working place at the beginning of each period of work and at appropriate times during the course of it, and in particular after any shot has been fired thereat or nearby and after any other interruption of work:\nProvided that where several persons are working at a place together and one of them is in charge, it shall be sufficient for such examinations to be made by that person.\n(2) Every person so engaged shall to the best of his power leave his working place at the end of his period of work in such condition as to allow work to be resumed there safely. If he is unable to do so, he shall, without prejudice to the generality of section eighty of the Act, fence off the place and report the matter forthwith to an official of the mine.\n(3) Every person so engaged shall take any necessary steps to avoid interruption of the ventilation of the mine whether by accumulations of mineral, vehicles or stores.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1761/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:15:38.919395+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}