{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-safety-lamps-and-lighting-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-safety-lamps-and-lighting-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1765",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal and Other Mines (Safety-Lamps and Lighting) Order 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-safety-lamps-and-lighting-order-1956",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "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“deputy” has the meaning assigned thereto in the Coal and Other Mines (Managers and Officials) Regulations, 1956;\n“detector” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation two;\n“mine” has the meaning assigned thereto in regulation one;\n“shot firer” has the meaning assigned thereto (in the case of a mine of coal) in the Coal Mines (Explosives) Regulations, 1956, or (in the case of a mine of stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay) means a person appointed to be a shot firer by the manager of the mine;\n“working face” does not include a place in a road at which the work consists of ripping or work of repair.\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": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(p. 1212 above)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "(p. 1329 below)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1765/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:15:36.028495+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."
}