{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-ventilation-variation-regulations-1966/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-ventilation-variation-regulations-1966/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1966/1139",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal and Other Mines (Ventilation) (Variation) Regulations 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-ventilation-variation-regulations-1966",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After regulation 7 of the principal regulations there shall be added the following regulation:—\n“7A On every occasion on which a determination of firedamp content is required to be made at or as near as is practicable to the point in an airway serving a longwall face thirty feet from the nearest working place at that face, being an airway which as regards that face is a return airway, a determination of firedamp content shall also be made as near as is practicable to the point in that airway thirty feet from the junction thereof with any other return airway.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1966/1139/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:43:04.762104+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."
}