{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-safety-lamp-mines-explosives-regulations-1993/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-safety-lamp-mines-explosives-regulations-1993/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal and Other Safety-Lamp Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-safety-lamp-mines-explosives-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Use of priming station and security of primed cartridges",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not prime cartridges away from the place where they are to be used unless–\n(a) he has been authorised in writing by the manager to do so; and\n(b) he does so at a suitable priming station designated by the manager for the purpose.\n(2) A person who primes cartridges at a priming station shall–\n(a) carefully pack them into one or more containers; and\n(b) (in the case of a shotfirer, subject to paragraph (2) of regulation 33 or, in the case of a trainee shotfirer, subject to paragraph (3) of regulation 33) keep any such container secure until all the primed cartridges are used.\n(3) A person shall not–\n(a) open a container of primed cartridges; or\n(b) handle a primed cartridge,\nunless he is a shotfirer or trainee shotfirer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/208/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:05:51.074363+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."
}