{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-sanitary-conveniences-order-1956/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-sanitary-conveniences-order-1956/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1776",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal and Other Mines (Sanitary Conveniences) Order 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-sanitary-conveniences-order-1956",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No person shall relieve his bowels at a mine above ground or on a road below ground otherwise than in a sanitary convenience.\n(2) No person shall improperly soil or render unfit for use any sanitary convenience at a mine or any sanitary utensil or appliance provided for use at such a sanitary convenience.\n(3) Every person who relieves his bowels below ground at a mine (otherwise than in a water-closet or a convenience so constructed and used that any deposit flows therefrom to a separate container and is therein chemically treated) shall forthwith cover the faeces with disinfectant, dry coal dust, or other suitable substance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1776/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:15:27.873499+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."
}