{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-ventilation-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1764",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal and Other Mines (Ventilation) Order 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-ventilation-order-1956",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Determinations of the firedamp content shall be made—\n(a) by means of apparatus of a type approved for the purpose by the Minister, by a competent person appointed for that purpose by the manager of the mine; or\n(b) by means of samples of air taken by a competent person so appointed and analysed within four days of the taking thereof.\n(2) In reckoning a period of four days for the purposes of this regulation no account shall be taken of any Saturday, Sunday or day of general holiday.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1764/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:15:37.053660+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."
}