{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-36.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/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In these regulations the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—\n“the Act” means the Mines and Quarries Act, 1954;\n“appointed driver” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation seventeen;\n“charging station” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation thirty-two;\n“deputy” and “deputy's district” have the meanings assigned thereto in the Coal and Other Mines (Managers and Officials) Regulations, 1956;\n“filling station” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation twenty-six;\n“firedamp content” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation eleven;\n“housing station” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation twenty-five;\n“locomotive” means a mechanically propelled vehicle running on rails and constructed or used for hauling other vehicles;\n“mine” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation one;\n“storage battery locomotive” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation four.\n(2) Expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Act or by these regulations shall (unless the contrary intention appears) have the same meanings in any document issued under the provisions of these regulations.\n(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "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/36",
    "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."
}