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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-mines-owners-operating-rules-regulations-1993/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2331",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal Mines (Owner’s Operating Rules) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-mines-owners-operating-rules-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Defence on contravention of regulation 3(3)",
  "text": "It shall be a defence in proceedings against any person for an offence consisting of a contravention of regulation 3(3) for that person to prove that at the time the proceedings were commenced—\n(a) an improvement notice under section 21 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 relating to that contravention had not been served on him; or\n(b) if such a notice had been served on him—\n(i) the period for compliance therewith had not expired, or\n(ii) he had appealed against the notice and that appeal had not been withdrawn or dismissed.",
  "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/1993/2331/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:50:24.897466+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."
}