{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-mines-cardox-and-hydrox-regulations-1956/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-mines-cardox-and-hydrox-regulations-1956/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1942",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal Mines (Cardox and Hydrox) Regulations 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-mines-cardox-and-hydrox-regulations-1956",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No person shall take below ground materials for filling or priming shells unless he is a person authorised so to do by the manager of the mine.\n(2) No person shall take or convey below ground materials for filling or priming shells, other than carbon dioxide in a cylinder, except in a stoutly constructed box which is—\n(a) water-proof;\n(b) so constructed and maintained that when closed no electric charge applied to any part of the outside thereof could be conducted to the contents;\n(c) distinctively marked to indicate its contents; and\n(d) closed and locked:\nProvided that a box need not comply with sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) if the materials therein are placed in a bag of such construction that the purposes thereof are achieved.\n(3) Every person in charge of such a box shall ensure that it is not deposited at any time elsewhere than in a place of safety.\n(4) Every person in charge of such a box shall, if at the end of his shift it contains any materials for filling or priming shells, return it to a place appointed by the manager of the mine for the purpose.\n(5) No person below ground shall unlock or open any such box or take any material out of it unless a person appointed by the manager to fire shells requires to check the quantity of the contents or the material is required immediately for filling or priming a shell or the act in question has been authorised by a deputy or other official of the mine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1897",
      "affecting_title": "The Management and Administration of Safety and Health at Mines Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1942/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:14:34.078701+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."
}