{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-26.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/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No person shall replenish any diesel locomotive with fuel oil in any mine except at a place appointed for that purpose by the manager (in these regulations referred to as a “filling station”).\n(2) The manager shall ensure that every filling station—\n(a) is provided with not less than two means of egress;\n(b) is ventilated by a current of air sufficient to dilute and render harmless all gases emitted therein;\n(c) is constructed of non-inflammable material;\n(d) has a floor of smooth concrete surrounded by a sill;\n(e) is provided with suitable and sufficient apparatus for combating outbreaks of fire; and\n(f) is so equipped that the spilling of oil is minimised.\n(3) Any person spilling oil in a filling station shall—\n(a) forthwith wipe it up or cause it to be wiped up with a non-inflammable absorbent;\n(b) forthwith thereafter deposit that absorbent, or cause it to be deposited, in a fireproof receptacle; and\n(c) as soon as practicable take that absorbent, or cause it to be taken, to the surface.\n(4) No person shall take any oil from any container in a filling station while any internal combustion engine in the filling station is running.\n(5) In a mine or part of a mine which is not a safety-lamp mine or safety-lamp part of a mine, no person shall, in, or within ten yards of, any filling station, smoke or use any lamp or light other than a locked safety-lamp or an electric lamp adequately protected:\nProvided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to any filling station constructed before the first day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, in any mine of stratified ironstone or of shale for any diesel locomotive which was in use before that date or was required to be delivered under a contract made before that date.",
  "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/26",
    "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."
}