{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-act-1954/section-181",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-act-1954/section-181.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70",
  "legislation_title": "Mines and Quarries Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-act-1954",
  "path": "section/181",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "181",
  "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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) 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 . . ..\n(5) This section shall, in its application to Scotland, have effect as if, for subsection (3), there were substituted the following subsection:—\n“(3) Where two or more persons are entitled to work a quarry independently, and one of them has granted the right so to do to the other or others, that one shall, to the exclusion of the other or others, be taken for the purposes of this Act to be the owner of the quarry.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 181(1) omitted (1.1.2000) by S.I. 1999/2024, regs. 1(1), 47(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 181(2) repealed (1.1.2000) by S.I. 1999/2024, regs. 1(1), 47(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 181(3) repealed (1.1.2000) by S.I. 1999/2024, regs. 1(1), 47(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 181(4) omitted (1.1.2000) by S.I. 1999/2024, regs. 1(1), 47(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70/section/181",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:40.206842+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."
}