{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-mines-act-1904/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-mines-act-1904/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/Edw7/4/156",
  "legislation_title": "Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1904",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-mines-act-1904",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\nThe expression “the principal Act” means the Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838 and the expression “the Amendment Act” means the Act of the session of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria chapter forty intituled “An Act to make further provisions for the Management of Her Majesty’s Forest of Dean and of the Mines and Quarries therein and in the Hundred of St. Briavels in the County of Gloucester”;\nThe term “gale” includes all levels drifts drains cuts-out watercourses pits shafts and pit heaps belonging or appertaining to a gale and the term “galee” includes the heirs and assigns of a galee;\nThe term “gale in hand” means any tract of coal for the time being ungaled and subject to be galed;\nThe term “existing gale” means any gale for the time being vested in a galee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1838 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1861 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Edw7/4/156/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:16:41.043574+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."
}