{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-157",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-157.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1969/6",
  "legislation_title": "Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-act-northern-ireland-1969",
  "path": "section/157",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "157",
  "heading": "Meaning of “owner”.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, in this Act the expression “owner” means, in relation to a mine, the person for the time being entitled to work it.\n(2) Where the business of a person who, by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section is, for the purposes of this Act, to be taken to be owner of a mine is carried on by a liquidator, receiver or manager, or by some other person authorised to carry it on by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, the liquidator, receiver, manager or other person shall be taken for the purposes of this Act to be an additional owner of the mine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1969/6/section/157",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:58.843167+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."
}