{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-3.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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Every locomotive and each of its accessories shall, so far as practicable, be constructed of non-inflammable material, and any inflammable material included therein shall be shrouded with a substantial metallic covering:\nProvided that an inspector may by notice served on the manager of any mine consent to the running in that mine of a locomotive in which inflammable material is not so shrouded.\n(2) In the case of every locomotive in which the motive power is generated by an internal combustion engine, that locomotive shall be so constructed that—\n(a) no air enters the engine without first being cleaned;\n(b) no exhaust gases are expelled from the locomotive without first being cooled and diluted; and\n(c) no flames or sparks are emitted from the locomotive.\n(3) Every locomotive which runs in a mine or part of a mine in which the use of lamps or lights, other than permitted lights, is unlawful shall be of a type approved by the Minister:\nProvided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to a locomotive which runs only in lengths of road not ventilated by air that has ventilated any working face and which does not run to any place in such a length of road within nine hundred feet of a working face accessible from that length of road.",
  "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/3",
    "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."
}