{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-ventilation-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where determinations of the firedamp content in any part of a mine which comprises a working face other than a longwall face are required to be made by virtue of the use of electric power at or within one hundred and fifty feet of that face or the firing of shots in that part of the mine, those determinations shall be made at suitable points fixed by the manager in respect of each air current in that part of the mine.\n(2) An inspector may, if he is of opinion that any point so fixed is unsuitable, serve on the manager a notice requiring him to fix some other point in substitution therefor and may serve on the manager a notice requiring determinations to be made at some other point specified in the notice in addition to those required by the preceding paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1764/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}