{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1771",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal and Other Mines (Locomotives) Order 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No person shall operate any locomotive in any mine other than a person appointed by the manager of the mine to be a driver of that locomotive or of that type of locomotive (hereinafter referred to as “an appointed driver”) or a person so doing in the course of his duty in connection with the maintenance, repair or testing of that locomotive, and no appointed driver shall operate a locomotive hauling persons in vehicles unless he has attained the age of—\n(a) in the case of a mine of shale, eighteen years;\n(b) in the case of any other mine, twenty-one years.\n(2) A manager shall not appoint any person to be an appointed driver unless that person is the holder of a certificate that he is competent without supervision to operate a locomotive of the type in question given by a person responsible for his training in such operation.\n(3) The manager shall supply to every appointed driver a copy or summary of so much of the transport rules of the mine as affect the discharge of his duties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1771/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:15:31.705653+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."
}